The notion that energy production externalities in general are not captured is another canard.
This study presents a framework to include environmental externalities into a system of national accounts.
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However, sewage treatment has many positive externalities as well, things not measured in market prices.
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The major problem with free markets, which are in many ways wonderful things, is externalities.
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At one point - not included in the edited interview - he mentioned "internalising positive externalities".
It is possible to eat a lot of fatty food, exercise frequently and not generate any externalities.
So we are measuring the negative externalities against the market calculation, rather than all externalities against all externalities.
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Yet policies, at the federal and state levels, continue to prioritize roadways and resist pricing the externalities of driving.
The fundamental problem for the allocative efficiency of competitive markets arises from externalities.
The IEA recommends that government policies internalize externalities and invest in renewable energy technology research to balance the economic scales.
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Presumably this return is to be found in the "externalities" some economists and educators claim results from spending on education.
This is like the problem of externalities, where market actors do not bear the costs of their actions or choices.
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Or, more broadly, of how best to remove the many externalities that mean the environment is undervalued and thus overused.
Taxes on externalities will not equate to the harm of the externality.
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The problem with capitalists is that they are sometimes indifferent to externalities.
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But free markets are inadequate or fail altogether in the allocation of public goods, in addressing systemic and catastrophic risks and economic externalities.
But now we come to what I think is the problem: they are measuring the costs of the negative externalities of these processes.
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While such a breakthrough may come eventually, a tax on gasoline that reduces consumption is a far more dependable way to reduce transportation externalities.
When economists discuss rationales for government intervention in introductory economics courses, police services are sometimes offered as examples of goods that produce positive externalities.
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You can see echoes of these sentiments in a recent blog post from Eli Dourado, where he urges everyone to create positive externalities.
If innovation drives solar and battery prices low enough, the energy sector may become no different than any other industry in producing limited externalities.
There are plenty of sexy externalities associated with the latest insider trading charges against a former Deloitte tax partner and his wife.
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Leaders and environmentalists alike should be careful to examine such externalities to determine if policy is delivering the intended larger result of a cleaner world.
When we should be comparing all externalities with market value added.
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But they are not measuring the benefits of the positive externalities.
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Outside of natural cycles in the economy, there are many externalities that can interfere with market stability, for example war, the deficit, international financial distress, etc.
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Fortunately, he notes, economists have already figured out how to deal with such externalities: tax them so that the polluter internalises the cost of his actions.
But free markets are inadequate or fail altogether in allocating public goods efficiently and effectively, in addressing systemic and catastrophic risks, and in dealing with economic externalities.
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Its impact on U.S. industry was arguably overrated given our evolution toward a service economy, but the externalities of pollution limits had the potential to be unfortunate.
The resulting externalities of increased testing costs and compatibility risk would be passed on to firms who want to deploy technology stacks covered by such a decision.
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