Externalities are the incidental effects that the activities or actions of one party have on another party. Positive externalities occur when the actions of a person or entity have a positive impact ...

Why does America have zoning laws? Mainly to stop externalities. Since it emerged in the Progressive Era, zoning was meant to prevent land development from negatively affecting people who live outside ...

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Consumption, production, and investment decisions of individuals, households, and firms often affect people not directly involved in the transactions. Sometimes these indirect effects are tiny. But ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Chemical Safety and Waste Management convened the hearing on plastic production and pollution.

An externality is a cost or benefit related to the production or consumption of a good or service that affects third parties unrelated to the production or consumption. It is generally the unintended, ...

Written by Peter H. Swan, Ph.D. The railroad industry is in crisis. Many people outside and inside the industry are quick to blame its current state on Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) and Wall ...

Sir, Jonathan Ford raises some important questions in his Inside Business column on the support that renewable sources of energy receive from the UK government (“Reforms needed to balance hidden costs ...