Consider two goods - one that generates external benefits and another that generates external costs. A competitive market economy would tend to produce:
Question 5 options:
- too much of both goods, relative to the social optimum.
- too little of both goods, relative to the social optimum.
- too much of the good that generates external benefits relative to the social optimum, and too little of the good that generates external costs.
- too little of the good that generates external benefits relative to the social optimum, and too much of the good that generates external costs.