Five people want to have a lighted garden built at the entrance to their neighborhood. The difficulties they experience in getting one another to commit to paying for the garden are best described as

A) property rights.
B) transactions costs.
C) negative externalities.
D) rivalry.


B

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What will be an ideal response?

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