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If a policy helps some but harms others

A) the result is a Pareto improvement for the people who are helped. B) then the cost-benefit analysis will show a net increase in surplus and is therefore desirable. C) we cannot use the Pareto principle to evaluate whether or not the policy is desirable. D) it is too hard to determine whether or not the outcome is desirable.

If the income elasticity of demand for a good is negative, this means that:

a. only the poor will buy the good. b. as incomes fall, less will be spent on the good. c. as incomes rise, the demand for the good will fall. d. the good does not obey the law of demand.