In 2008, the nominal GDP of the United States was approximately

Recently, the State of Tennessee discovered chemical compounds in their drinking water which may cause cancer. Since Tennessee's drinking water comes from the Pigeon River in North Carolina, the source of these chemicals is the waste discharges of industrial paper plants in North Carolina. This is an example of a(n):

a. external cost imposed on the citizens of Tennessee by the industrial plants of North Carolina. b. market failure where the market price of the output of these industrial plants does not fully reflect the social cost of producing these goods. c. externality where the marginal social costs of producing these industrial goods differ from the marginal private costs. d. all of these.

The deadweight loss (or excess burden) resulting from levying a tax on an economic activity is the

a. tax revenue raised by the government as the result of the tax. b. loss of potential gains from trade from activities forgone because of the tax. c. increase in the price of an activity as the result of the tax levied on it. d. marginal benefits derived from the expansion in government activities made possible by the increase in tax revenues.