Microeconomics Chapter 12: Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities

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Additional External Cost

Additional costs incurred by third parties outside the production process when a unit of output is produced

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Biodiversity

The full spectrum of animal and plant genetic material

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Command-and-Control Regulation

Laws that specify allowable quantities of pollution and that also may detail which pollution-control technologies one must use

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Externality

A market exchange that affects a third party who is outside or “external” to the exchange; sometimes called a “spillover”

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International Externalities

Externalities that cross national borders and that a single nation acting alone cannot resolve

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Market Failure

When the market on its own does not allocate resources efficiently in a way that balances social costs and benefits; externalities are one example of a market failure

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Marketable Permit Program

A permit that allows a firm to emit a certain amount of pollution; firms with more permits than pollution can sell the remaining permits to other firms

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Negative Externality

A situation where a third party, outside the transaction, suffers from a market transaction by others

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Pollution Charge

A tax imposed on the quantity of pollution that a firm emits; also called a pollution tax

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Positive Externality

A situation where a third party, outside the transaction, benefits from a market transaction by others

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Property Rights

The legal rights of ownership on which others are not allowed to infringe without paying compensation

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Social Costs

Costs that include both the private costs incurred by firms and also additional costs incurred by third parties outside the production process, like costs of pollution

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Spillover

Synonym for externality

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