ECON 010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Demand Curve, Sneakers, Deadweight Loss
Econ010 Chapter 5: Externalities
Externality: benefit or cost that affects someone who is not directly involved in production
or consumption of good/service
Private cost: cost borne by producer of a good or service
Social cost: total cost of producing a good or service including both private cost and any
external cost
Private benefit: benefit received by a consumer of a good/service
Social benefit: total benefit from consuming a good/service, including both private benefit
and any external benefit
Market failure: situation in which market fails to produce efficient level of output
Property rights: rights individuals or businesses have to exclusive use of their property,
including right to buy or sell it
Transaction costs: costs in time and other resources that parties incur in process of
agreeing to and carrying out an exchange of goods/services
Coase theorem: the argument of economist Ronald Coase that if transactions costs are low,
private bargaining will result in an efficient solution to the problem of externalities
Pigovian taxes and subsidies: gov taxes and subsidies intended to bring about an efficient
level of output in presence of externalities
Command and control approach: involves government imposing quantitative limits on
amount of pollution firms are allowed to emit or requiring firms to install specific pollution
control devices
Tragedy of the commons: tendency for a common resource to be overused
-negative externality: surplus
-positive externality: deficit
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Externality: benefit or cost that affects someone who is not directly involved in production or consumption of good/service. Private cost: cost borne by producer of a good or service. Social cost: total cost of producing a good or service including both private cost and any external cost. Private benefit: benefit received by a consumer of a good/service. Social benefit: total benefit from consuming a good/service, including both private benefit and any external benefit. Market failure: situation in which market fails to produce efficient level of output. Property rights: rights individuals or businesses have to exclusive use of their property, including right to buy or sell it. Transaction costs: costs in time and other resources that parties incur in process of agreeing to and carrying out an exchange of goods/services. Coase theorem: the argument of economist ronald coase that if transactions costs are low, private bargaining will result in an efficient solution to the problem of externalities.