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The document summarizes key concepts around externalities from an economics textbook. It defines an externality as the impact of one person's actions on another person's well-being. It discusses how negative externalities can lead to market inefficiencies and how governments can intervene through taxes or regulations to internalize external costs. Positive externalities are also addressed as well as different policy options like cap-and-trade systems to deal with externalities.

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Chapter 10 Outline PDF

The document summarizes key concepts around externalities from an economics textbook. It defines an externality as the impact of one person's actions on another person's well-being. It discusses how negative externalities can lead to market inefficiencies and how governments can intervene through taxes or regulations to internalize external costs. Positive externalities are also addressed as well as different policy options like cap-and-trade systems to deal with externalities.

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Chapter 10: Externalities Principles of Economics, 5th Edition N. Gregory Mankiw Page 1 1. Introduction a.

Governments can sometimes improve market outcomes. b. Def: Externality is the impact of one persons actions on the well being of a bystander. P. 204. i. They can be negative or positive. Externalities and Market Inefficiency a. Welfare Economics: A Recap i. Markets can maximize the gains from trade. ii. Figure 1: The Market for Aluminum. P. 205. b. Negative externalities in production shift up the costs of production. i. Figure 2: Pollution and the Social Optimum. P. 206. ii. Def: Internalizing an externality means altering incentives so that people take account of the external effects of their actions. P. 207. This can be accomplished with a tax. c. Positive externalities in production reduce the costs of production. i. Figure 3: Technology Spillovers and the Social Optimum. P. 208. d. Case Study: Technological Spillovers, Industrial Policy, and Patent Protection, P. 208. i. Positive externalities have been used to argue for government support of technology firms. ii. While not generally supporting these programs, economists do support patents. iii. A better argument for government support of technology is based on basic non-patentable activities. Public Policies Toward Externalities a. Command and Control Policies: Regulation b. Market Based Policy1: Corrective Taxes and Subsidies i. A corrective tax is designed to induce private decision makers to take account of the social costs that arise from a negative externality. P. 210 ii. Case Study: Why is Gasoline Taxed So Heavily? P. 211 c. Market Based Policy 2: Tradable Pollution Permits i. Figure 4: The Equivalence of Corrective Taxes and Pollution Permits. P. 214. b. Objections to the economic analysis of pollution are often based on a lack of understanding about tradeoffs. Private Solutions to Externalities a. The Types Of Private Solutions

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Chapter 10: Externalities Principles of Economics, 5th Edition N. Gregory Mankiw Page 2 i. Moral codes and social sanctions, ii. Vertical integration and iii. Contracts. In the News: The Case for Taxing Carbon, P. 216 Def: The Coase theorem is the proposition that if private parties can bargain without cost over the allocation of resources, they can solve the problem of externalities on their own. P. 217. Why private solutions do not always work because of transaction costs. i. Def: Transactions costs are the costs that parties incur in the process of agreeing and following through on a bargain. P. 219

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