You Work in an Office and One of Your Co-Workers

Multiple Choice

You work in an office and one of your co-workers has announced his retirement.You have offered to purchase the retirement gift, so you place a collection jar in the lunch room for anonymous donations to help pay for the gift.After a week you find that very few dollars are in the jar, so you end up paying for a large share of the retirement gift.You are the victim of the:

A) common resource problem.
B) private good problem.
C) overuse of a common resource problem.
D) free-rider problem.