Classify each of the following goods listed in the table below as a public good, a private good, a club good, or a common resource. Public Good Private Good A certified pre-owned hybrid electric car that you use to drive your roommates to class A cabana on the beach that is open to the public Club Good Common Resource

Classify each of the following goods listed in the table below as a public good, a private good, a club good, or a common resource. Public Good Private Good A certified pre-owned hybrid electric car that you use to drive your roommates to class A cabana on the beach that is open to the public Club Good Common Resource

Principles of Economics 2e

2nd Edition

ISBN:9781947172364

Author:Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro

Publisher:Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro

Chapter12: Environmental Protection And Negative Externalities

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 10SCQ: Suppose a city releases 16 million gallons of raw sewage into a nearby lake. Table 12.8 shows the...

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Suppose a city releases 16 million gallons of raw sewage into a nearby lake. Table 12.8 shows the total costs of cleaning up the sewage to different levels, together with the total benefits of doing so. (Benefits include environmental, recreational, health, and industrial benefits.) Using the information in Table 12.8, calculate the marginal costs and marginal benefits of reducing sewage emissions for this city. See Production, Costs and Industry Structure if you need a refresher on how to calculate marginal costs. What is the optimal level of sewage for this city? Why not just pass a law that films can emit zero sewage? After all, the total benefits of zero emissions exceed the total costs.
Four roommates are planning to spend the weekendin their dorm room watching old movies, and theyare debating how many to watch. Here is theirwillingness to pay for each film:Dwayne Javier Salman ChrisFirst film $7 $5 $3 $2Second film 6 4 2 1Third film 5 3 1 0Fourth film 4 2 0 0Fifth film 3 1 0 0a. Within the dorm room, is the showing of a moviea public good? Why or why not?b. If it costs $8 to stream a movie, how many moviesshould the roommates stream to maximize totalsurplus?c. If they choose the optimal number from part (b)and then split the cost of streaming the moviesequally, how much surplus does each personobtain from watching the movies?d. Is there any way to split the cost to ensure thateveryone benefits? What practical problems doesthis solution raise?e. Suppose they agree in advance to choose theefficient number and to split the cost of the moviesequally. When Dwayne is asked his willingness topay, will he have an incentive to tell the truth? Ifso, why? If not, what will he…
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Table 11-6Consider the city of Widgetapolis with only four residents, John, James, Mary, and Lydia. The four residents are trying to determine how many hours to spend in cleaning up the public lake. The table below shows each resident’s willingness to pay for each hour of cleaning. Hours John James Mary Lydia 1 $30 $50 $40 $10 2 25 40 37 9 3 20 30 34 8 4 15 20 30 7 5 9 10 25 6 6 3 0 15 5 7 0 0 5 4 Refer to Table 11-6. Suppose the cost to clean the lake is $40 per hour and that the residents have agreed to split the cost of cleaning the lake equally. If it was decided that the lake will be cleaned for the number of hours that maximizes total surplus of Widgetapolis, how much individual surplus will Mary receive in total? a. $116 b. $15 c. $25 d. -$10
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Fish that swim in international waters are a common good that are freely available toanyone who wants to catch them, but this leads to the problem of over-fishing. At theheart of this problem lies an externality. Using appropriate diagrams andaccompanying discussion, show both how and why this over-fishing takes place. Inyour explanation, identify the source of the externality.
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Refer to Figure. The graph represents a market in which 24 22 22 Price 18 16 81 Social cost (private cost and external cost) Supply (private cost) Demand (private valne) 120 160 Quantity a. Othere is no externality. b. Othere is a positive externality. c. Othere is a negative externality. d. The answer cannot be determined from inspection of the graph.
22. Both Wisconsin and Illinois border Lake Michigan. The lake is becoming polluted and both states are deciding whether or not to clean it. If Wisconsin decides to clean the fake it will cost 1200 and generate social benefits of 1500 however, Wisconsin will receive only 1100 of those social benefits while neighbor Illinois will receive the other 400. If Illinois cleans the lake, it will cost them 700 and generate social benefits of 900 â€" however, Illinois will receive only 600 of those benefits, Wisconsin will receive the remaining 300. If a state does not clean the lake, it experiences a cost of $0. If Wisconsin does not clean the lake and Michigan does then the payoffs will be
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