Rents

question 391

Multiple Choice

Rents

• A) have no useful economic purpose.
• B) have an allocative function since they help decide to which use a resource will be put.
• C) have a distributional function since they affect incomes, but have no allocative function since the resource is in fixed supply.
• D) have an economic purpose only if they are taxed and provide revenue to the government.

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