Under competition, the price of a resource reveals

a. information about the past, but not future, uses of a resource.
b. the most valuable way to use the resource.
c. how much the resource is worth in the most valuable of its alternative uses.
d. the value of the labor needed to fully exploit the resource.


c. how much the resource is worth in the most valuable of its alternative uses.

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