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Chapter 10. Externalities. Principles of Economics. Gregory Mankiw.

Examples of externalities.

Welfare economics: A recap.

Negative externalities in production.

Pollution and the Social Optimum.

Positive Externalities in Production.

Technology Spillovers and the Social Optimum.

Externalities in consumption Private Solutions to Externalities-The types of private solutions.

The Coase theorem Why private solutions do not always work.

Public policies toward externalities-Regulation.

Pigovian taxes and subsidies.

Tradable Pollution Permits The equivalence of Pigovian Taxes and Pollution Permits Objections to the economics analysis od pollution

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