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book Economics for Today 9th Edition by Irvin Tucker cover

Economics for Today 9th Edition by Irvin Tucker

Edition 9ISBN: 978-1305507111
book Economics for Today 9th Edition by Irvin Tucker cover

Economics for Today 9th Edition by Irvin Tucker

Edition 9ISBN: 978-1305507111
Exercise 33
MICROECONOMICS POLICY ISSUES
This road map feature helps you tie together material in the part as you travel the Economic Way of Thinking Highway. The following are review questions listed by chapter from the previous part. The key concept in each question is given for emphasis, and each question or set of questions concludes with an interactive game to reinforce the concepts. Visit cengagebrain.com to purchase the MindTap product where you can select a chapter and play the visual causation chain game designed to make learning fun. The correct answers to the multiple choice questions are given in Appendix C on the instructor's resource site.
Key Concept: Effluent Tax
A government policy that charges coal producers a fee per ton of coal produced (an "effluent charge"), where the fee is determined by the amount of pollutants discharged into the air or water will lead to a(an)
A) decrease in the market equilibrium quantity of coal produced.
B) decrease in the market equilibrium price of coal.
C) increase in the market equilibrium price of coal.
D) Both answers a. and c. are correct.
Explanation
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