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Readiness Assessment Quiz

1 .       Marginal social cost =  

 
 
 
 


2 .       When a person gets a flu shot, it reduces the probability that other people will get the flu. This is an example of:  

 
 
 
 


3 .       In order to internalize an external cost, a tax must cause the marginal private cost to:  

 
 
 
 


4 .       The Coase theorem states that an externality problem can be solved:  

 
 
 
 


5 .       For the people who are sitting on a beach, the sunrise over the water is:  

 
 
 
 


6 .       In the adverse selection example of used cars, we would expect that, in the long run,  

 
 
 
 


7 .       Arrow's impossibility theorem states that it is impossible for:  

 
 
 






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