Which of the following is not a reason that private firms do not provide public goods? a) the free-rider problem. b) public goods are unprofitable. c) the price system doesn’t assign the cost of public goods to all consumers. d) the government refuses to grant sudsidies to firms who provide public goods.

99 points which of the following selections is least useful for supporting the claim that states intentionally built unequal school systems to separate the races? question 1 options: a. the supreme court ruling in plessy v. ferguson (1896) declared segregation of schools to be unconstitutional. b. it was very clear by the mid-1900s that southern states had expertly built separate educational systems. these schools, however, were never equal. c. states with laws keeping schools segregated never gave equal amounts of money t o their black and white schools. d. ten years after brown, fewer than 10 percent of southern public schools had integrated. some areas did not comply at all.