Question

Three “statical” types of these phenomena are classified in a 1958 paper by Francis M. Bator. To rebut an example created by James Meade, the “ownership” type of these phenomena was analysed by Steven Cheung in a classic study of orchards titled “The Fable of the Bees.” A 1985 paper by Michael Katz and Carl Shapiro discussed how telephone infrastructure is linked to the “network” type of these phenomena. (-5[1])The presence of these phenomena does not stop (*) Pareto optimality holding if transaction costs are zero, (10[1])according to the Coase theorem. These phenomena (10[1])can be corrected using a Pigovian tax, and are the difference between social and private costs. Water pollution exemplifies the “negative” type of, for 10 points, what market failures in which market activity imposes costs or benefits on third (10[1])parties? ■END■

ANSWER: externalities [or externality or external costs; accept negative externalities or positive externalities or network externalities or network externality; prompt on spillover costs; prompt on network effects]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Davis Everson-RoseWeird Klaus BarbieJeff Weiner Fan Club68-5
Nicholas TunksOur Job is Buzzdoubleplusnegfive8410
Sharath NarayanPalestrina SawayamaBHSU9110
Maxwell YeJeff Weiner Fan ClubWeird Klaus Barbie13010

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%33%101.67