Froggy Jumps
Food and Resources
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Which of the following is the least likely to be considered an open-access resource?
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An unintended consequence or side-effect (either beneficial or detrimental) associated with a market good is referred to as:
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Which of the following are markets best at allocating?
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What is true about a market demand curve for a public good that differentiates it from a private good?
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Suppose a positive externality leads to an inefficient market equilibrium. What is true of the inefficient equilibrium quantity relative to the efficient equilibrium quantity?
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Three big piles of trash in my front yard in plain view of my neighbors is an example of:
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Externalities exist because
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What is typically true in the case of an open-access resource?
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What is typically true in the case of an open-access resource?
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Which of the following is true of resource rents?
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The absence of this characteristic from property rights is the primary cause of externalities:
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Market failure can result because:
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This refers to a bundle of entitlements defining the owner’s rights, privileges, and limitations.
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During our fisheries class example, we saw a prime example of how:
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If all of the fishing companies in the game were consolidated into a single company that had complete control of the fishery, and the fleet captain was Coach Jeff Lebby, then:
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A fish in the ocean is:
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The main problem with an open-access resource like a fish is that:
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An open-access resource is:
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Ronald Coase argued that if transactions costs (the cost of doing business) were low enough, then:
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Coase’s proposal shows that there is a potential to correct externalities how?
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When might Coase’s proposed method be the only feasible way to correct the externality?
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Coase’s proposal has been misinterpreted and abused by free-market advocates. What major assumption of his did they gloss over in order to push their agenda?
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If Coase’s point was not that government intervention is always unnecessary, then what was the main point he was trying to make?
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A positive externality:
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When is an externality not a market failure (and thus not really an externality)?
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Imposing a tax in an externality situation:
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If, in our class example, if a tax were imposed on the farm for polluting the river, then we are assuming implicitly that:
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This characteristic of property rights requires that all benefits and costs accrued as a result of owning and using the resources should accrue to the owner, and only to the owner, either directly or indirectly by sale to others.
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Having well-defined property rights is important because:
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Which of the following is always TRUE of a market failure?
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An externality is a type of:
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An externality exists when:
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Economists advocate free markets because:
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Which of the following is NOT one of the things we took as given when we analyzed various markets during the semester?
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What’s the problem with a zero price?
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What is true of the quantity of bottled water traded when we ignore Bully’s feelings?
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What is true about the price of bottled water if we ignore the impact on Bully?
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Suppose Bully were elected King of Campus, and he passed a tax on bottled water equal to the vertical distance between MCS and MCP. What would be the result?
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What is the efficient number of boats?
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What is true at the efficient level of boats?
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What is the open-access equilibrium number of boats?
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What is true at the open-access equilibrium level?
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