Multiple Choice
Common resources tend to be overused because:
A) individuals tend to ignore the cost their use of the resource has on others.
B) the individual marginal cost is greater than the marginal social cost.
C) common resources are nonrival and nonexcludable.
D) the marginal cost of allowing one more unit of consumption is zero.
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