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Externalities: Problems and Solutions

externalities : Problems and Solutions131 Undergraduate Public EconomicsEmmanuel SaezUC Berkeley1 OUTLINEC hapter Externality Private-Sector Solutions to Negative Public-Sector Remedies for Distinctions Between Price and Quantity Approaches toAddressing Conclusion2 externalities : Problems AND SOLUTIONSM arket failure: A problem that violates one of the assump-tions of the 1st welfare theorem and causes the market econ-omy to deliver an outcome that does not maximize efficiencyExternality: externalities arise whenever the actions of oneeconomic agent make another economic agent worse or betteroff, yet the first agent neither bears the costs nor receives thebenefits of doing so:Example: a steel plant that pollutes a river used for recreationExternalities are one example of market failure3 EXTERNALITY THEORY: ECONOMICS OFNEGATIVE PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIESN egative production externality: When a firm s productionreduces the well-being of others who are not compensated bythe marginal cost (PMC): The direct cost to producersof producing an additional unit of a goodMarginal Damage (MD): Any additional costs associatedwith the production of the good that are imposed on othersbut that producers do not paySoc

EXTERNALITY THEORY: ECONOMICS OF NEGATIVE CONSUMPTION EXTERNALITIES Negative consumption externality: When an individual’s consumption reduces the well-being of others who are not compensated by the individual. Private marginal cost (PMB): The direct bene t to con-sumers of consuming an additional unit of a good by the con-sumer.

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