Economics for Today 9th Edition by Irvin Tucker

تمرين 47

The perfectly competitive profit-maximizing firm in Exhibit 6 creates water and air pollution as a consequence of producing its output of pigs. If pollution costs are borne by third parties, the firm will maximize economic profit by choosing to
A) voluntarily incur costs to reduce its pollution.
B) produce at output rate Q 3.
C) produce at output rate Q 2.
D) produce at output rate Q 4.
EXHIBIT 6 Private and Social Cost