I think the term 'public good' is meant more in a greatest good long-term / net effect sense. For choice D, the liquidation of a large company's assets has positive (economic) effects on the local community in the short run (immediate aftermath). Since it is a large company, perhaps it has negative ...

At first I wasn't sure what to do about this question since this article gives a distinct conclusion and I wasn't sure how relevant that must be to the main point. After much deliberation on this question (like 6:50 of my 35 minutes haha), I picked A because I decided an article's conclusion and mai...