The market tends to overproduce goods that have external costs because
A) Producers do not take into account those external costs that they don't have to pay.
B) Producers experience higher costs than society.
C) The government is not able to produce these goods.
D) Producers cannot keep the goods from consumers who don't pay,so they produce a greater amount.
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