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Midterm 3

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show one person's consumption of a good directly effects someone else; ex= buying pair of schools, Big Mac  
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show just because I consume a good doesn't mean you can't; ex= radio station, trees  
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show I can prevent you from consuming a good if you don't pay for it; ex= shoes  
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nonexcludable   show
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show private goods (rival, excludable); artificially scarce goods (nonrival, excludable); common resources (rival, nonexcludable); public goods (nonrival, nonexcludable)  
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why nonexcludability causes markets to fail   show
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why nonrival causes markets to fail   show
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ways to provide nonrival/nonexcludable public goods?   show
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show MC=MB doesn't work w/nonrival; gov should make decisions based on total benefit to society which is the sum of the individuals; MSB >(=)MC  
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show add up the MB of everyone involved and see if that's greater than or equal to MC of one more unit; if only 1 person was making the choice, wouldn't get optimal quantity; socially optimal level different from 1 person's quantity  
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public good provision moral   show
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show incentive to overstate how much you value something in a hypothetical situation than if they had to pay; majority voting (median voter decides quantities); tiebout sorting (vote w/feet, but people can't always just move)  
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common resources   show
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how to fix common resources   show
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artificially scare goods   show
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show MSB=MSC; everyone benefits from good without taking away from someone else, what matters is sum of all indiv marginal benefits; indiv will choose level that's too low; the fix= gov provided  
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common resources: how much is right?   show
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artificially scarce goods: how much is right?   show
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