Topic 4: Externalities‚ Pollution and Global Warming ECON 1210B Economics and Society 1 Introduction Recall: Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity In the absence of market failures‚ the market outcome is efficient‚ maximizes total surplus One major type of market failure: externalities Externality: the uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander 2 Externalities and Efficiency In the presence of externality‚ market equilibrium
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Externalities‚ by definition‚ are the benefits or costs that affects someone who is not directly involved in the production or consumption of a good or service (Hubbard et al.‚ 2012). These externalities cause differences between private and social costs and benefits and inadvertently undermine the efficiency of a market. In this particular case‚ the production costs of any good that emits carbon as a byproduct is not just borne by the producers themselves‚ but also society as a whole. This pollution
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terms: i) Externality ii) Public Good Externality Externalities‚ or transaction spillovers‚ arise when a third party who is not involved in the consumption of a product incur certain costs and benefits that are not compensated for by the generators of those externalities. They exist due to the price system’s (The Invisible Hand) inability to deal with products that have no market or price‚ such as clean air‚ peace‚ quiet‚ pollution and more. In a broader sense‚ externalities involve interdependence
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Externality: the uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander Externalities and Market Inefficiency Negative Externalities Ex: aluminum factories emit pollution: for each unit of aluminum produced‚ certain amount of smoke enters atmosphere Cost to society of producing aluminum larger than cost to aluminum producers Social cost includes private costs of aluminum producers plus costs to those bystanders affected adversely by the pollution How can social planner
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Unit 9 Assignment: Externalities Name: - Angelina Grooms Course Number: - AB224 Section Number: - 04 Unit Number: - 9 Date: - January 8th‚ 2014 Education is an example of a positive externality: acquiring more education benefits the individual student and having a more highly educated work force is good for the economy as a whole. The accompanying table illustrates the marginal benefit to Sian per year of education and the marginal cost per year of education. Each year
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taxation is the most effective solution to market failures arising from negative externalities Market failure is when the free market fails to provide an efficient allocation of resources. Negative externalities are the costs to a third party of a particular action‚ and it is where the social cost is greater than the private cost. Taxation is a solution to correct market failure which is arising from negative externalities. Introducing an indirect tax‚ (a tax levied on goods and services)‚ can
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Introductory* Micro*economics 316-102 *Sem 1*‚2010 Assignment 2: Genevieve Blanch QUESTION 1. Externalities in this situation exist where the Government‚ Country or Private Organisation decides to launch a new satellite causing costs and benefits to other members of society which do not impact on the G‚C or PO. Such externalities include: NEGATIVE (Costs to other members of society) Hazard to the useful working satellites that surround Earth. Threat to our
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other individual’s consumption of that good...” (Samuelson 387-389) Adam Smith explained that selfishness leads markets to produce whatever people want. In order for a producer to make money he or she must sell what the public wants to buy. Externalities undermine the social benefits of individual’s selfishness. Smith pointed out that if consumers do not have to pay producers for benefits‚ they will not pay. If producers do not receive pay‚ they will not produce. This leads to valuable products
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