Economics For Today
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Chapter 14, Problem 3SQ
From an economic viewpoint, the optimal amount of pollution
- a. is zero because all pollution imposes costs on society.
- b. is that amount firms create when they maximize economic profits by setting their marginal private costs equal to market
price . - c. is that amount where the marginal
social costs of producing a good precisely equals the price of the good. - d. Both answers b. and c. are correct.
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