The tragedy of the commons is the absence of incentives to

A) correctly measure the marginal social benefit from a common resource.
B) prevent under use of the common resource.
C) prevent overuse and depletion of a common resource.
D) discover the common resource.


C

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A) -1 percent. B) 1.2 percent. C) 1 percent. D) -0.83 percent.

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