If a production process generates pollution, then a competitive market will produce more of the good than is socially optimal because

A) firms take all costs into consideration.
B) firms incur all costs of production but ignore some of them.
C) firms ignore the costs of production that they do not incur.
D) firms set price equal to social marginal cost.


C

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