ECONOMICS
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Question
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Positive Externality
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Negative Externality
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Positive Economics
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Negative Economics
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Detailed explanation-1: -A negative externality exists when the production or consumption of a product results in a cost to a third party. Air and noise pollution are commonly cited examples of negative externalities.
Detailed explanation-2: -A negative externality is an indirect cost that a third party incurs from another party’s production or consumption of a good. Negative externalities indicate that the social costs are higher than the third parties’ private costs.
Detailed explanation-3: -A negative externality is a cost that is suffered by a third party as a consequence of an economic transaction. In a transaction, the producer and consumer are the first and second parties, and third parties include any individual, organisation, property owner, or resource that is indirectly affected.
Detailed explanation-4: -Third party and externalities A third party could be someone affected by pollution from a factory. In this case, the third party may never have wished to be involved but is forced to encounter the externality of the production.
Detailed explanation-5: -Air pollution. Air pollution may be caused by factories, which release harmful gases to the atmosphere. Water pollution. Farm animal production.