Professional sports teams will sometimes seek public subsidies for stadium financing projects that produce large benefits for a relatively small number of fans and impose small costs on a relatively large number of people. Sometimes these efforts to secure public funding are successful even though the decision is not efficient. This is an example of
A. pork-barrel politics.
B. market failure.
C. the special-interest effect.
D. log-rolling.
Answer: C. the special-interest effect.
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A) goods used for household consumption only. B) goods used for government consumption only. C) goods purchased by one business from another to use in production. D) goods purchased by foreigners. E) raw materials used in the production process.
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(a) were minimal. (b) accounted for a small percentage of Gross Domestic Product. (c) exceeded the total revenue of the U.S. government by four-fold. (d) were what attracted the majority of agriculturalists into cotton production.