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What is the distinction between private cost and social cost?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Refer to Figure 9-4. Suppose the government allows imports of leather footwear into the United States. What will be the domestic quantity supplied?
 
  A) Q0 B) Q1 C) Q2 D) Q2 - Q0


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Answer to Question 1

A private cost of production is the cost of producing a good or service that is borne only by the producer. A social cost of production includes the private costs of production as well as the external costs of production borne by people other than the producer.

Answer to Question 2

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