Markets tend to overallocate resources to the production of a good when

A. there are public goods produced.
B. equilibrium occurs.
C. there are positive externalities.
D. there are negative externalities.


Answer: D

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The Nobel Prize winner William Shockley feels strongly that blacks do not have a hereditary racial inferiority in intellectual performance

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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