When the marginal social cost of producing Good A is greater than the marginal private cost of producing Good A, then
A) a competitive, unregulated market produces the efficient quantity of Good A.
B) a competitive, unregulated market produces more than the efficient quantity of Good A.
C) a competitive, unregulated market produces less than the efficient quantity of Good A.
D) the government should levy a tax on the production of Good A that is equal to the horizontal distance between the two marginal cost curves.
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