Much of the nation's coal is extracted by strip mining. This process leaves a huge barren hole in the ground when complete, and the cost of replanting the trees is approximately $10 per ton of coal. Burning the coal for electricity causes air pollution. No one knows how much damage the air pollution causes, but we know that for another $10 per ton the power plant can be outfitted with a pollution
control device. What is one measure of the true social cost of coal fired electricity, in dollars per ton?
a. Private marginal cost plus the $10 replanting charge.
b. Private marginal cost plus the $10 emission control charge.
c. Only the $20 of replanting and emission control charges, because the other costs are private, not social.
d. Private marginal cost plus the $20 of replanting and emission control charges.
e. In order to answer this question we need to know the dollar value of the pollution.
d
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A) $1,080 billion B) $1,010 billion C) $980 billion D) $860 billion
The creation of the corporation is an example of Hayek's:
a. Human action b. Human design c. Spontaneous disorder d. none of the above e. all of the above