Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 1.6

1.6 — practice question

In some state-run prisons in California, prisoners can pay for a better type of prison cell than the one they are normally assigned. What does this show?

  • APublic goods can be made excludable.
  • BPublic goods use price as an allocative mechanism.
  • CThe market system is not only used for private enterprise.
  • DThe market system misallocates resources.

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