A perfectly competitive steel mill that produces large amounts of a pollution (a negative externality) will, from a social point of view, produce:

a. too little steel.
b. the socially optimal quantity of steel.
c. too much steel.
d. too much steel only if it installs pollution control equipment.

c

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