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Define public good

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Non-Excludable goods that can only be provided through tax revenue because anyone can use it

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Define Non-Excludable

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Consumption costs can’t be limited to those who use it

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Define Merit Good

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An under consumed good in the free market due to the underestimation of its benefit

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Define Demerit Good

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An over consumed good with a negative externality

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Define Factor Immobility

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Where factors of production are difficult to be put to other tasks and so there’s a misallocation of resources

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Define Geographical Immobility

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The inability of workers to work where jobs are avilable

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Define Occupational Immobility

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Where staff are unable to move into a different industry

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Define Imperfect Information

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People who don’t know everything about a transaction

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Define Asymmetric information

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Either the buyer or seller has more information than the other

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Define Information Failure

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An umbrella term for Imperfect and Asymmetric information that distort resource allocation

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Give 4 consequences of environmental change on

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  • There’s a reduction in finite resources such as fossil fuels
  • Unsustainable
  • Social costs are not paid for by those doing the polluting
  • Creates negative externalities such as pollution and climate change
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Define Environmental Externality

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The impact on the environment that is prevalent in modern production

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What is the trade-off concerning the environment of production?

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Producing and transporting goods uses up environmental resources

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How do the government intervene to provide merit goods?

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Subsidies or tax exemptions to bring supply up to the socially optimum level

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How does taxation of demerit goods correct market failure?

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Decreases the quantity supplied

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What are Tradable Pollution Permits?

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The government issues a restricted number of permits to limit the amount of pollution

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Give an advantage of Tradable Pollution Permits

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The value of the permit gives the owner an incentive to reduce their emissions

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Give a disadvantage of Tradable Pollution Permits

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Inefficient firms will have to buy more permits so there’s a tradeoff between GDP and pollution

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How does the provision of information help correct market failure?

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Raises awareness

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How does regulation correct market failure?

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Bans firms from doing certain things