If an economist claims there are substitutes for clean air, he is really saying

A) clean air is free air.
B) there are costs to cleaning the air.
C) nobody is truly harmed by unclean, polluted air.
D) dirty air is better than clean air.
E) economists don't care for clean air.


B

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