Which of the following is true?
a. All types of environmental problems can be solved merely by the enforcement of individual property rights.
b. Environmental regulation cannot improve environmental quality.
c. Income levels exert little impact on the demand for environmental quality.
d. Markets often result in outcomes that are inefficient when it is difficult to assign and enforce property rights.
D
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In the following question you are asked to determine, other things equal, the effects of a given change in a determinant of demand or supply for product X upon (1) the demand (D) for, or supply (S) of, X; (2) the equilibrium price (P) of X; and (3) the equilibrium quantity (Q) of X. An increase in income, if X is a normal good, will:
A. increase D, increase P, and increase Q. B. increase D, increase P, and decrease Q. C. decrease D, increase P, and increase Q. D. increase S, increase P, and increase Q.
The store of value function is defined as the
A) double coincidence of wants that is used in the debate over barter versus money. B) pricing of goods and services in one measure. C) exchange of goods and services directly for other goods and services. D) holding of money from one transaction to be used later in another transaction. E) use of money as a medium of exchange.
Refer to Figure 18.3. The opportunity cost of producing scooters in Livonia is
A) 2/3 of a pogo stick. B) 6/5 of a pogo stick. C) 1.5 pogo sticks. D) 1.25 pogo sticks.
If Japan is relatively capital rich and the United States is relatively land rich, and if food is relatively land intensive then trade between these two, formerly autarkic countries will result in
A) an increase in the relative price of food in the U.S. B) an increase in the relative price of food in Japan. C) a global increase in the relative price of food. D) a decrease in the relative price of food in both countries. E) an increase in the relative price of food in both countries.