Think about the goods and services provided by state and local governments. a) Using the categories in Figure 11.1, classify each of the following goods,explaining your choice: i) police protection ii) garbage collection iii) education iv) rural roads v) city streets. b) Why do you think the government provides items that are not public goods?

Which of the following descriptions best characterizes public goods?Select an answer and submit. For keyboard navigation, use the up/down arrow keys to select an answer.aPublic goods are those where it is hard to keep non-payers from using the good, but their use of the good does not negatively impact others’ ability to use it.bPublic goods are those where it is hard to keep non-payers from using the good, and their use of the good negatively impacts others’ ability to use it.cPublic goods are those without an external cost of production or an external benefit of production.dPublic goods are those where individual consumers can be excluded from using the good, but the marginal cost is zero and so an infinite number of goods should be produced.Unanswered2 attempts left

Without government intervention, public goods will be __________ provided by markets alone. Group of answer choicesequitablyunderefficientlyoverly

What are the two characteristics that differentiate private goods from public goods?Multiple Choicerivalry and excludabilitynegative externality and positive externalitymarginal cost and marginal benefitownership and usage

Public goods are typically provided by the government, because private markets tend to aproduce less than the socially optimum quantity bproduce them at higher cost ccharge a monopoly price that is greater than the marginal social cost dproduce more than the socially optimum quantity

Public goods are those for which thereis no free-rider problem.are not any externalities.is nonrivalry and nonexcludability.is rivalry and excludability.The demand curve shows the relationship betweenmoney income and quantity demanded.price and production costs.price and quantity demanded.consumer tastes and quantity demanded.Toll-free roads sometimes get extremely congested, such as during rush-hour traffic. During those times, we would say that these roads areexcludable and rival.excludable and nonrival.nonexcludable and nonrival.nonexcludable and rival.Economists use the term "demand" to refer toa particular price-quantity combination on a stable demand curve.the total amount spent on a particular commodity over a fixed time period.an upsloping line on a graph that relates consumer purchases and product price.a schedule of various combinations of market prices and quantities demanded.A private goodis non-rival.can be financed through taxation.is non-excludable.are produced by private, for-profit companies.Of the following countries, which one best exhibits the characteristics of a market economy?SingaporeCubaNorth KoreaBelarusIf the demand curve reflects consumers' full willingness to pay, and the supply curve reflects all costs of production, then which of the following is true?Market failure will occur.The market will produce only units for which benefits are less than costs.The demand curve and supply curve will intersect where MB = MC.Resources will not be allocated optimally.Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of laissez-faire capitalism?public ownership of all capitalcentral planningminimal government interventionan economy based on barteringMarket failuresnever result in overproduction or underproduction.are very common in all types of markets especially competitive markets.maximize the total surplus that is shared between consumers and producers.will cause society to fail to get as much benefit as possible from its limited supply of resources.Nonrivalry and nonexcludability are the main characteristics ofconsumption goods.capital goods.private goods.public goods.Purposeful behavior suggests thateveryone will make identical choices.resource availability exceeds economic wants.individuals may make different choices because of different desired outcomes.an individual's economic goals cannot involve trade-offs.Supply curves representNone of the answer choices is correct.sellers' maximum acceptable price curves.marginal cost curves.marginal benefit curves.The free-rider problem only occurs in the markets for quasi-public goods.truefalseExamples of command economies arethe United States and Japan.Sweden and Norway.Mexico and Brazil.Cuba and North Korea.A public goodcan be profitably produced by private firms.is characterized by rivalry and excludability.produces no positive or negative externalities.is available to all and cannot be denied to anyone.Proponents of laissez-faire maintain that governments are corrupted by special interests that use the government's economic influence to benefit themselves rather than society at large.truefalseThe two main characteristics of a public good areproduction at constant marginal cost and rising demand.nonexcludability and production at rising marginal cost.nonrivalry and nonexcludability.nonrivalry and large negative externalities.Nonexcludability describes a condition whereone person's consumption of a good does not prevent consumption of the good by others.there is no effective way to keep people from using a good once it comes into being.sellers can withhold the benefits of a good from those unwilling to pay for it.there is no potential for free-riding behavior.Which of the following statements about market economies is correct?The precise mixture mixture of centralized government economic initiatives and decentralized actions taken by individuals and firms varies by country.The market system features the private ownership of resources and the use of markets and prices to coordinate and direct economic activity.Individuals and businesses seek to achieve their economic goals through their own decisions regarding work, consumption, or production.All of these choices are correct.