Changing the ownership of the ocean from common property to private property would

A) ensure that this resource would be allocated in a more efficient manner.
B) ensure that this resource would be allocated in a less efficient manner than under common property rights.
C) not be economically desirable.
D) result in no appreciable change in efficiency of utilization of this resource.


A

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