ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

ECONOMICS

MARKET FAILURES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ are situations when there’s an external costs or external benefits that accrue to other people or society as a whole.
A
Externalities
B
Internalities
C
Progressives
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An external benefit is a benefit received by people other than the consumers or producers trading in the market. In other words, an external benefit is a benefit to bystanders.

Detailed explanation-2: -External costs (also known as externalities) refer to the economic concept of uncompensated social or environmental effects. For example, when people buy fuel for a car, they pay for the production of that fuel (an internal cost), but not for the costs of burning that fuel, such as air pollution.

Detailed explanation-3: -In economics, there are four different types of externalities: positive consumption and positive production, and negative consumption and negative production externalities. As implied by their names, positive externalities generally have a positive effect, while negative ones have the opposite impact.

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