When advertising enhances the ability of markets to allocate resources, it is most likely:
a. manipulating people's tastes
b. increasing the brand loyalty of existing customers.
c. advertising about the existence of new products.
d. addressing psychological, rather than informational, characteristics of a good.
c
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