Apartment dwellers near Wrigley Field in Chicago are often able to watch the Chicago Cubs baseball team play from the roof of their apartment building, without having to pay the cost of buying a ticket. This is an example of a:
a. marginal social cost.
b. negative externality.
c. positive externality.
d. deadweight loss.
Ans: c. positive externality.
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