governmet intervention like tax or legal permits may help
A. C. Pigou
If a company's pollution creates economic costs (for example, the medical bill of a patient who gets sick from pollution), then the government will force the company to pay that cost.
The governments should provide their citizens with all their human and universal rights as described by the constitution. All governments for instance are supposed to guarantee the safety of their citizens.
He believes that state should have central governments.
The right to personal liberty
discuss the use of indirect taxes and subsidies by governments to deal witn externalities
Government tries to encourage positive externalities and limit negative externalities..
Negative externalities lead markets to produce a larger quantiy than is socially desirable. Positive externatlities lead markets to porduce a smaller quantity than is social desirable. To remedy the problem, the government can internalize the externality by taxing goods that have negative externalities and susidizing good that have positive externalities.
Economists care about externalities because they represent costs or benefits incurred by third parties not directly involved in a transaction, leading to market failures. Externalities can distort resource allocation, resulting in overproduction or underproduction of goods and services. Understanding externalities helps economists design policies to internalize these effects, promoting efficiency and equity in the market. Addressing externalities is crucial for achieving optimal social welfare.
They regulate firms and make such practices illegal.
A. C. Pigou
Some solutions to externalities include implementing Pigovian taxes or subsidies to internalize the external cost or benefit, setting government regulations and standards, creating property rights, using market-based instruments like cap and trade systems, and fostering community agreements or cooperation.
From Wikipedia article titled "Externality":There are a number of potential means of improving overall social utility when externalities are involved. The market-driven approach to correcting externalities is to "internalize" third party costs and benefits, for example, by requiring a polluter to repair any damage caused. But, in many cases internalizing costs or benefits is not feasible, especially if the true monetary values cannot be determined.
Governments have the ability to compensate and decrease externalities such as marginal social and environmental costs by regulatory, taxation, and punitive fine regimes. Thus, governments can use revenue and legal mechanisms to increase the cost of such externality causes and by doing do decrease their incidence.
Government tries to encourage positive externalities and limit negative externalities..
Government tries to encourage positive externalities and limit negative externalities..
Only the private sector can create both positive and negative externalities.