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A negative externality is when social costs exceed private costs leading to production of________ output. a.too...

A negative externality is when social costs exceed private costs leading to production of________ output.

a.too much
b.too little
c.excessively expensive
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Answer - too much

Reason - A negative externality is when social cost exceeds private cost leading to production of too much output.

Private cost is the cost paid by the producer of goods and social cost is the cost paid by society in terms of sacrifices made by them for the decision of producer.

In case of negative externality the social cost exceeds the private cost and the producer is paying less for his decision leading him to produce too much output.

For example -

the air pollution done by a motorcycle is neither covered by the producer of the motorcycle or consumer of it.

Here the cost paid by society in terms of the pollution in air,

and the producer didn't had to pay anything for it,

so here the social cost exceeds the private cost and the producer will go one producing too much output creating a negative externality.

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