In the case of pollution—the traditional example of a negative externality—a polluter makes decisions based only on the direct cost of and profit opportunity from production and does not consider the ...

The federal and provincial NDP are retreating away from Trudeau's imploding carbon pricing scheme, but not to the degree they ...

There are, however, efforts to mitigate this negative externality by seeking cleaner and green energy sources for mining operations (such as geothermal or solar sources) and utilizing carbon ...

Sean Moriarty, CEO of PrimerAI, said the Defense Department is lagging in its adoption of important technology.

The government may want to discourage a behavior resulting in a negative externality, and encourage a behavior resulting in a ...

Even in an era of ugly politics, the past few weeks have stood out. There are the familiar disparagements between candidates, sure, albeit ones framed more existentially than would have been the ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Khadija Khartit is a strategy ...

Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill recently said that customers wanted green fuel, but they didn’t want to pay much extra ...

while not clearly identifying the cost of the negative externality. The standard economic solution would be to measure that externality precisely and implement it through a price mechanism ...

Yet so many of these self-professed market fundamentalists push back on a tax on a transaction that creates a negative externality – traffic congestion – borne by individuals not directly ...

Plastics producers and consumers today are detached from the costs of environmental damage or recovery, a classic illustration of a negative externality. But as the scale and extent of the effects ...

"Large countries have ToT incentives to raise tariffs but it has a negative externality on other countries. "It's a prisoner's dilemma: If China is motivated to raise tariffs because of ToT ...