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Unit 2.8: Demerit goods / negative externalities

This page focuses on another cause of market failure, the negative spillover costs associated with the consumption of demerit goods and some of the policies that governments can use to reduce the negative spillover costs. While IB students will generally understand the concept of external costs they will often struggle with the appropriate diagrams. The page containing the activities, with student access, for this...


Tags: demerit goods, taxation, quotas, tradable limits

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