There is an empty lot between a playground and a storage unit that has become filled with garbage and overgrown weeds. The lot is surrounded by a fence with a gate. Pipes run beneath it so that anything built there could have access to the city sewer and water supply. Which aspect of the empty lot would economists label as “bads”?

a. the access to water and sewer
b. the proximity to the playground and storage unit
c. the garbage and weeds
d. the fence and the gate


c. the garbage and weeds

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Which of the following are arguments against taxing unrealized capital gains?

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If Papagna's Pizza Parlor knows that the marginal cost of the 500th pizza is $3.00 and that the average total cost of making 499 pizzas is $3.30, then

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