Question

Externalities are a. unintended side-effects. b. always positive, never negative. c. an inevitable by-product of social responsibility. d. a blessing in disguise in inflationary times.

Answer 1

Option a (unintended side-effects) is the right alternative.

Step-by-step explanation:

• A cost, as well as benefit occasioned by such a production company that would not be economically accumulated rather than started receiving by this same producer, seems to be an environmental problem.
• An externality could be either favorable or unfavorable and therefore can occur whether from the development or use of a particular product. The expenses and rewards may be confidential to a person or an organization, or social, which means that society as a whole should be influenced.

Some other options are given aren't connected to the conclusions reached. So, the obvious response here is just the right one.