Taxes and subsidies—These are sometimes used as corrective d…
Taxes and subsidies—These are sometimes used as corrective devices for a market failure. Specifically, a tax is used to adjust for a (1)____________ externality, and a subsidy to promote an activity with (2)____________ externalities.
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Some public goods are rivalrous (1)__________ (True/False) A public good is (2)_________(excludable/nonexcludable) if it is impossible, or prohibitively costly, to exclude someone from obtaining the benefits of the good after it has been produced. A public good is (3)_________(excludable/nonexcludable) if it is possible, or not prohibitively costly, to exclude someone from obtaining the benefits of the good after it has been produced.
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One way to deal with externalities, particularly negative externalities, is for government to apply regulations directly to the activity that generates the externality. For instance, if factories emit air pollutants through their smokestacks, the government may regulate smokestack emissions requiring factories to install pollution-reducing equipment. Which one is not one of the critics of government regulations?
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