In the game in which two oil companies own adjacent oil fields, the companies will not use the oil efficiently because

a. neither company has a dominant strategy in the game.
b. the companies collude and produce a quantity of oil that is less than the socially-efficient quantity.
c. the pool from which they recover the oil is a common resource.
d. the pool from which they recover the oil is not large enough to allow both companies to earn a positive profit.


c

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