Unit 1: Markets are Efficient, Except . . . Intro to Microeconomics

Lesson 5b: Market Failures Continued: Positive Externalities and Public Goods

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positive externalities (external benefits or spillover benefits), private goods, public goods, rivalry (rival goods), nonrival goods, excludability (exclusion principle, exclusive goods), nonexcludability, (nonexclusive goods), free-rider problem, benefit-cost analysis (marginal-cost-marginal-benefit rule), tragedy of the commons, common access resources

 

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Lesson 5b