If the government wanted to encourage a monopoly to produce the socially efficient quantity, should it use

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If the government wanted to encourage a monopoly to produce the socially efficient quantity, should it use a per-unit tax or a per-unity subsidy? Explain how this tax or subsidy would achieve the socially efficient level of output. Among the various interested parties- the monopoly firm- the monopoly's consumers and other tax papers- who would support the policy and who would oppose it? 

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Principles of economics

ISBN: 978-0538453042

6th Edition

Authors: N. Gregory Mankiw

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