Sometimes market activities (production, buying, and selling) have unintended positive or negative effects outside the market’s scope. These are called
externalities. As a policy maker concerned with correcting the effects of gases and particulates emitted by and local power plant, answer the following questions:
externalities. As a policy maker concerned with correcting the effects of gases and particulates emitted by and local power plant, answer the following questions:
- What 1 policy could you use to reduce the total amount of emissions?
- Why do you think the policy would reduce the total amount of emissions?
- What would be the benefits of each action (besides emissions reduction)?
- What would be the costs of each action?
- How would you decide what was the best level of emission reduction?
