Externalities
Part 1
Market Failure
One type of market failure:
Externality, the uncompensated impact of one
person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander.
Self-interested buyers and sellers neglect the external
costs or benefits of their actions on society,
so the market outcome is not efficient for everyone.
Externalities can be negative or positive,
depending on whether impact on bystander is
adverse or beneficial. (good or bad)
Textbook definition:
- is a cost or a benefit that arises from:
Production that falls on someone other
than the producer.
Consumption that falls on someone other
than the consumer.
Shorter definition:
- the uncompensated无补偿的 impact of
one person’s actions on the well-being
of a bystander or third party.
Easier definition:
- Stuff that affects other people.
Externalities
1.) Externality Types
2.) The Graphs
3.) Solutions
Market Failure - Externalities
Negative Externalities - Unintended costs.
- A production or consumption
activity that creates an
external cost.Negative consumption
Negative production
1.) Externality Types
Negative consumption Negative production
1.) Externality Types
Negative consumption Negative production
1.) Externality Types
Negative consumption Negative production
1.) Externality Types
Negative consumption Negative production
1.) Externality Types
Demerit Goods - Goods with negative
externalities and considered
socially undesirable.
1.) Externality Types
Positive Externalities
Positive consumption
Positive production
1.) Externality Types
- Unintended benefits.
- A production or
consumption activity that
creates an external benefit.
Positive consumption Positive production
1.) Externality Types
疫苗
Positive consumption Positive production
1.) Externality Types
Positive consumption Positive production
1.) Externality Types
Positive consumption Positive production
1.) Externality Types
Positive consumption Positive production
1.) Externality Types
Merit Goods
1.) Externality Types
Goods with positive
externalities of which more is
desired then would typically
be produced.
1.) Externality Types
2.) The Graphs
Market Failure - Externalities
2.1) Negative
2.2) Positive
3.) Solutions
Means an additional one, the
measurement from one unit to the next.
最后的东西之一
Marginal Benefits VS. Marginal Costs
边际效益 针对 边际成本
(MB) (MC)
If MB > MC = It is worth doing 这是值得的
If MB = MC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡
If MB < MC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的
Also called Cost/Benefit analysis
Marginal Thinking
– Training your brain to
understand value
训练你的大脑明白什么意思值
Marginal Benefit
Marginal Thinking
The value of one more unit of a good or service
is its marginal benefit.can be measured as the
maximum price that people
are willing to pay for
another unit of the good or
service.
Demand and Marginal Benefit
- Buyers distinguish 区别 between value and price.
- Value is what the buyer gets.
- Price is what the buyer pays.
If we looked at a larger
market with many more
buyers, each would be a
step on this curve
It looks just like a
demand curve doesn’t it
That’s because it is!
D = MB
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3000
3750
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5250
6000
0 100200300400500
P
Q
Demand = Marginal
Benefit
Remember this?
Means an additional one, the
measurement from one unit to the next.
最后的东西之一
Marginal Benefits VS. Marginal Costs
边际效益 针对 边际成本
(MB) (MC)
If MB > MC = It is worth doing 这是值得的
If MB = MC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡
If MB < MC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的
Also called Cost/Benefit analysis
Marginal Thinking
Means an additional one, the
measurement from one unit to the next.
最后的东西之一
Marginal Social Benefits VS. Marginal Social Costs
边际效益 针对 边际成本
(MB) (MC)
If MSB > MSC = It is worth doing 这是值得的
If MSB = MSC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡
If MSB < MSC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的
Also called Cost/Benefit analysis
Marginal Thinking
( MPC ) Marginal Private Cost
( MC )
- The cost of producing an
additional unit of a good or
service that is borne by the
producer of it.*Supply =MC = MPC
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
MB
P
MC = MPC
Marginal Costs =
Marginal Private
Costs
EQ
MC - Typical market
equilibrium that
we have studied so
far.
2.) The Graphs
( MPC ) Marginal Private Cost
( MC )
2.) The Graphs
( MEC ) Marginal External Cost - The cost of producing
an additional unit of a
good or service that
falls on people other
than the producer.
*** The more
produced the
higher the costs.
P
Q
MB
P
MEC
Marginal External
Costs
Negative Externalities
- At any given output
the external costs to all
are higher then the
private costs
- The more that is
produced the higher
the costs become
EQ
External
cost
MC
( MPC ) Marginal Private Cost
( MC )
2.) The Graphs
( MEC ) Marginal External Cost
( MSC ) Marginal Social Cost
+
=
- The marginal cost
incurred by the
entire society
P
Q
MB
MSC
Marginal Social
Costs
MPC + MEC = MSC
The marginal cost
incurred by the
entire society –
everyone – the
people that
produce it and all
other third parties
affected by it
External
cost
MSC
MC
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
MB
P
EQ
External
cost
MSC
MC
The MPC production
point is not
efficient from a
societal view, too
much is produced.
MB = MSC
is the efficient
production point from
a societal view.
EQ1
P1
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
P
Deadweight
loss occurs
for society at
MPB.
The marginal cost
incurred by the
entire society –
everyone – the
people that
produce it and all
other third parties
affected by it
EQ
MSC
MC
MB=MPB
P1
EQ1
2.) The Graphs
0
1
2
3
4
5
0 10 20 30 Q
(gallons)
P
$
The market for gasoline
Another Example of a Negative Externality:
Supply (private cost)
External cost
= value of the negative
impact
on bystanders
= $1 per gallon
(value of harm
from smog, greenhouse
gases)
Social cost
= private + external cost
0
1
2
3
4
5
0 10 20 30 Q
(gallons)
P
$
The market for gasoline
D
S
The socially
optimal quantity
is 20 gallons.
At any Q < 20,
value of additional gas
is higher then social
cost.
At any Q > 20,
social cost of the
last gallon is
greater than its value
to society.
25
Demand
Private
cost
Social
Cost
Another Example of a Negative Externality:
0
1
2
3
4
5
0 10 20 30 Q
(gallons)
P
$
The market for gasoline
D
S
The socially
optimal quantity
is 20 gallons.
At any Q < 20,
value of additional gas
is higher then social
cost.
25
Demand
And there is a
deadweight loss
Private
cost
Social
Cost
Another Example of a Negative Externality:
0
1
2
3
4
5
0 10 20 30 Q
(gallons)
P
$
The market for gasoline
D
S
The socially
optimal quantity
is 20 gallons.
At any Q > 20,
social cost of the
last gallon is
greater than its value
to society.
25
Demand
And there is a
deadweight loss
Private
cost
Social
Cost
Another Example of a Negative Externality:
1.) Externality Types
2.) The Graphs
Market Failure - Externalities
2.1) Negative
2.2) Positive
3.) Solutions
( MPB ) Marginal Private Benefits
( MB )
2.) The Graphs
- The benefit of an
additional unit of a
good or service that
the consumer of
that good or service
receives.
*Demand = MB = MPB
P
Q
MB
P
MB = MPB
Marginal Benefits =
Marginal Private
Benefits
- Typical market
equilibrium that
we have studied so
far.
EQ
MC
2.) The Graphs
( MPB ) Marginal Private Benefits
( MB )
2.) The Graphs
-The benefit of an additional
unit of a good or service that
people other than the
consumer of the good or
service enjoy.
( MEB ) Marginal External Benefit
*** The more consumed the
benefits diminish.
P
Q
P
MEB
Marginal External
Benefits
- At any given point
the external
benefits of society
are greater then
that of the
individual
- As more is
produced the
benefits typically
become smaller
EQ
External
benefit
MC
MB
2.) The Graphs
( MPB ) Marginal Private Benefits
( MB )
2.) The Graphs
( MEB ) Marginal External Benefit
- The marginal
benefit enjoyed
by society.
( MSB ) Marginal Social Benefit
+
=
P
Q
P
MSB
Marginal Social
Benefits
- The cost of
producing an
additional unit of a
good or service
that falls on people
other than the
producer.
EQ
External
benefit
MC
MB
MSB
MPB + MEB = MSC
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
P
EQ
MC
MSB
P1
EQ1
MB = MPB
The MPB production
point is not
efficient from a
societal view, not
enough is
produced.
MC = MSB
is the efficient
production point from
a societal view.
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
P
EQ
MC
MSB
P1
EQ1
MB = MPB
Deadweight
loss occurs for
society at
MPB.
Not enough is
produced from the
view from society
2.) The Graphs
Negative Externality
- Market quantity larger than socially desirable
- Overproduction
Positive Externality
- Market quantity smaller than socially desirable
- Underproduction
Next:
To remedy the problem:
“internalize the externality” 内部化的外部性
 tax goods with negative externalities
 subsidize goods with positive externalities
 Create government regulation and laws to prevent the problem
Effects of Externalities: Summary
So to Summarize….
Means an additional one, the
measurement from one unit to the next.
最后的东西之一
Marginal Benefits VS. Marginal Costs
边际效益 针对 边际成本
(MB) (MC)
If MB > MC = It is worth doing 这是值得的
If MB = MC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡
If MB < MC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的
Also called Cost/Benefit analysis
Marginal Thinking
Means an additional one, the
measurement from one unit to the next.
最后的东西之一
Marginal Social Benefits VS. Marginal Social Costs
边际效益 针对 边际成本
(MB) (MC)
If MSB > MSC = It is worth doing 这是值得的
If MSB = MSC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡
If MSB < MSC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的
Also called Cost/Benefit analysis
Marginal Thinking
P
Q
MB
P
EQ
External
cost
MSC
MC
The MPC production
point is not
efficient from a
societal view, too
much is produced.
MB = MSC
is the efficient
production point from
a societal view.
EQ1
P1
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
P
Deadweight
loss occurs
for society at
MPB.
The marginal cost
incurred by the
entire society –
everyone – the
people that
produce it and all
other third parties
affected by it
EQ
MSC
MC
MB=MPB
P1
EQ1
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
P
EQ
MC
MSB
P1
EQ1
MB = MPB
The MPB production
point is not
efficient from a
societal view, not
enough is
produced.
MC = MSB
is the efficient
production point from
a societal view.
2.) The Graphs
P
Q
P
EQ
MC
MSB
P1
EQ1
MB = MPB
Deadweight
loss occurs for
society at
MPB.
Not enough is
produced from the
view from society
2.) The Graphs
Goods with Externalities
Demerit Goods Goods with negative
externalities and considered
socially undesirable.
Merit Goods Goods with positive
externalities of which more is
desired then would typically
be produced.
The End
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Externalities SFLS part1

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    Market Failure One typeof market failure: Externality, the uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander. Self-interested buyers and sellers neglect the external costs or benefits of their actions on society, so the market outcome is not efficient for everyone. Externalities can be negative or positive, depending on whether impact on bystander is adverse or beneficial. (good or bad)
  • 3.
    Textbook definition: - isa cost or a benefit that arises from: Production that falls on someone other than the producer. Consumption that falls on someone other than the consumer. Shorter definition: - the uncompensated无补偿的 impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander or third party. Easier definition: - Stuff that affects other people. Externalities
  • 4.
    1.) Externality Types 2.)The Graphs 3.) Solutions Market Failure - Externalities
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    Negative Externalities -Unintended costs. - A production or consumption activity that creates an external cost.Negative consumption Negative production 1.) Externality Types
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    Negative consumption Negativeproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Negative consumption Negativeproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Negative consumption Negativeproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Negative consumption Negativeproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Demerit Goods -Goods with negative externalities and considered socially undesirable. 1.) Externality Types
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    Positive Externalities Positive consumption Positiveproduction 1.) Externality Types - Unintended benefits. - A production or consumption activity that creates an external benefit.
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    Positive consumption Positiveproduction 1.) Externality Types 疫苗
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    Positive consumption Positiveproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Positive consumption Positiveproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Positive consumption Positiveproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Positive consumption Positiveproduction 1.) Externality Types
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    Merit Goods 1.) ExternalityTypes Goods with positive externalities of which more is desired then would typically be produced.
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    1.) Externality Types 2.)The Graphs Market Failure - Externalities 2.1) Negative 2.2) Positive 3.) Solutions
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    Means an additionalone, the measurement from one unit to the next. 最后的东西之一 Marginal Benefits VS. Marginal Costs 边际效益 针对 边际成本 (MB) (MC) If MB > MC = It is worth doing 这是值得的 If MB = MC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡 If MB < MC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的 Also called Cost/Benefit analysis Marginal Thinking
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    – Training yourbrain to understand value 训练你的大脑明白什么意思值 Marginal Benefit Marginal Thinking The value of one more unit of a good or service is its marginal benefit.can be measured as the maximum price that people are willing to pay for another unit of the good or service. Demand and Marginal Benefit - Buyers distinguish 区别 between value and price. - Value is what the buyer gets. - Price is what the buyer pays.
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    If we lookedat a larger market with many more buyers, each would be a step on this curve It looks just like a demand curve doesn’t it That’s because it is! D = MB 0 750 1500 2250 3000 3750 4500 5250 6000 0 100200300400500 P Q Demand = Marginal Benefit Remember this?
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    Means an additionalone, the measurement from one unit to the next. 最后的东西之一 Marginal Benefits VS. Marginal Costs 边际效益 针对 边际成本 (MB) (MC) If MB > MC = It is worth doing 这是值得的 If MB = MC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡 If MB < MC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的 Also called Cost/Benefit analysis Marginal Thinking
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    Means an additionalone, the measurement from one unit to the next. 最后的东西之一 Marginal Social Benefits VS. Marginal Social Costs 边际效益 针对 边际成本 (MB) (MC) If MSB > MSC = It is worth doing 这是值得的 If MSB = MSC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡 If MSB < MSC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的 Also called Cost/Benefit analysis Marginal Thinking
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    ( MPC )Marginal Private Cost ( MC ) - The cost of producing an additional unit of a good or service that is borne by the producer of it.*Supply =MC = MPC 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q MB P MC = MPC MarginalCosts = Marginal Private Costs EQ MC - Typical market equilibrium that we have studied so far. 2.) The Graphs
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    ( MPC )Marginal Private Cost ( MC ) 2.) The Graphs ( MEC ) Marginal External Cost - The cost of producing an additional unit of a good or service that falls on people other than the producer. *** The more produced the higher the costs.
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    P Q MB P MEC Marginal External Costs Negative Externalities -At any given output the external costs to all are higher then the private costs - The more that is produced the higher the costs become EQ External cost MC
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    ( MPC )Marginal Private Cost ( MC ) 2.) The Graphs ( MEC ) Marginal External Cost ( MSC ) Marginal Social Cost + = - The marginal cost incurred by the entire society
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    P Q MB MSC Marginal Social Costs MPC +MEC = MSC The marginal cost incurred by the entire society – everyone – the people that produce it and all other third parties affected by it External cost MSC MC 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q MB P EQ External cost MSC MC The MPC production pointis not efficient from a societal view, too much is produced. MB = MSC is the efficient production point from a societal view. EQ1 P1 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q P Deadweight loss occurs for societyat MPB. The marginal cost incurred by the entire society – everyone – the people that produce it and all other third parties affected by it EQ MSC MC MB=MPB P1 EQ1 2.) The Graphs
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    0 1 2 3 4 5 0 10 2030 Q (gallons) P $ The market for gasoline Another Example of a Negative Externality: Supply (private cost) External cost = value of the negative impact on bystanders = $1 per gallon (value of harm from smog, greenhouse gases) Social cost = private + external cost
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    0 1 2 3 4 5 0 10 2030 Q (gallons) P $ The market for gasoline D S The socially optimal quantity is 20 gallons. At any Q < 20, value of additional gas is higher then social cost. At any Q > 20, social cost of the last gallon is greater than its value to society. 25 Demand Private cost Social Cost Another Example of a Negative Externality:
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    0 1 2 3 4 5 0 10 2030 Q (gallons) P $ The market for gasoline D S The socially optimal quantity is 20 gallons. At any Q < 20, value of additional gas is higher then social cost. 25 Demand And there is a deadweight loss Private cost Social Cost Another Example of a Negative Externality:
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    0 1 2 3 4 5 0 10 2030 Q (gallons) P $ The market for gasoline D S The socially optimal quantity is 20 gallons. At any Q > 20, social cost of the last gallon is greater than its value to society. 25 Demand And there is a deadweight loss Private cost Social Cost Another Example of a Negative Externality:
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    1.) Externality Types 2.)The Graphs Market Failure - Externalities 2.1) Negative 2.2) Positive 3.) Solutions
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    ( MPB )Marginal Private Benefits ( MB ) 2.) The Graphs - The benefit of an additional unit of a good or service that the consumer of that good or service receives. *Demand = MB = MPB
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    P Q MB P MB = MPB MarginalBenefits = Marginal Private Benefits - Typical market equilibrium that we have studied so far. EQ MC 2.) The Graphs
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    ( MPB )Marginal Private Benefits ( MB ) 2.) The Graphs -The benefit of an additional unit of a good or service that people other than the consumer of the good or service enjoy. ( MEB ) Marginal External Benefit *** The more consumed the benefits diminish.
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    P Q P MEB Marginal External Benefits - Atany given point the external benefits of society are greater then that of the individual - As more is produced the benefits typically become smaller EQ External benefit MC MB 2.) The Graphs
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    ( MPB )Marginal Private Benefits ( MB ) 2.) The Graphs ( MEB ) Marginal External Benefit - The marginal benefit enjoyed by society. ( MSB ) Marginal Social Benefit + =
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    P Q P MSB Marginal Social Benefits - Thecost of producing an additional unit of a good or service that falls on people other than the producer. EQ External benefit MC MB MSB MPB + MEB = MSC 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q P EQ MC MSB P1 EQ1 MB = MPB TheMPB production point is not efficient from a societal view, not enough is produced. MC = MSB is the efficient production point from a societal view. 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q P EQ MC MSB P1 EQ1 MB = MPB Deadweight lossoccurs for society at MPB. Not enough is produced from the view from society 2.) The Graphs
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    Negative Externality - Marketquantity larger than socially desirable - Overproduction Positive Externality - Market quantity smaller than socially desirable - Underproduction Next: To remedy the problem: “internalize the externality” 内部化的外部性  tax goods with negative externalities  subsidize goods with positive externalities  Create government regulation and laws to prevent the problem Effects of Externalities: Summary
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    Means an additionalone, the measurement from one unit to the next. 最后的东西之一 Marginal Benefits VS. Marginal Costs 边际效益 针对 边际成本 (MB) (MC) If MB > MC = It is worth doing 这是值得的 If MB = MC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡 If MB < MC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的 Also called Cost/Benefit analysis Marginal Thinking
  • 48.
    Means an additionalone, the measurement from one unit to the next. 最后的东西之一 Marginal Social Benefits VS. Marginal Social Costs 边际效益 针对 边际成本 (MB) (MC) If MSB > MSC = It is worth doing 这是值得的 If MSB = MSC = It may be worth doing “a wash” 收支平衡 If MSB < MSC = Not worth doing 这是不值得的 Also called Cost/Benefit analysis Marginal Thinking
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    P Q MB P EQ External cost MSC MC The MPC production pointis not efficient from a societal view, too much is produced. MB = MSC is the efficient production point from a societal view. EQ1 P1 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q P Deadweight loss occurs for societyat MPB. The marginal cost incurred by the entire society – everyone – the people that produce it and all other third parties affected by it EQ MSC MC MB=MPB P1 EQ1 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q P EQ MC MSB P1 EQ1 MB = MPB TheMPB production point is not efficient from a societal view, not enough is produced. MC = MSB is the efficient production point from a societal view. 2.) The Graphs
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    P Q P EQ MC MSB P1 EQ1 MB = MPB Deadweight lossoccurs for society at MPB. Not enough is produced from the view from society 2.) The Graphs
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    Goods with Externalities DemeritGoods Goods with negative externalities and considered socially undesirable. Merit Goods Goods with positive externalities of which more is desired then would typically be produced.
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