If You Burn Your Trash in the Backyard in Spite

question 242

Multiple Choice

If you burn your trash in the backyard in spite of regulations against it, then you are

• A)acting economically irrationally and creating a social cost.
• B)avoiding the private costs associated with disposing your trash some other way and creating a social cost.
• C)acting rationally and creating a positive externality.
• D)saving landfill space and creating a social benefit.

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