When There Is Market Failure Due to a Negative Externality

question 65

Multiple Choice

When there is market failure due to a negative externality:

• A) there are no ways of correcting it.
• B) setting the price of the good equals to its marginal social cost will solve it.
• C) the free market produces output at a too high price.
• D) externalities have been taken into account.

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