If an Objective of Public Policy Is to Allocate Pollution

question 412

Multiple Choice

If an objective of public policy is to allocate pollution to those factories that face the highest cost of reducing it, then that objective could be achieved by

• A)a corrective tax, but not by regulation.
• B)regulation, but not by a corrective tax.
• C)either regulation or a corrective tax.
• D)neither regulation nor a corrective tax.

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