Specialized electronic batteries, such as those for laptops, are hard to dispose of safely, yielding excess pollution when one gets thrown away. Suppose that producing these batteries creates a social cost of $150 per unit. The accompanying diagram depicts the market for these batteries in which these social costs are not internalized. Please adjust the appropriate curves to represent the market if the social costs are internalized. 1,000 950 900 850 800 750 700 Price 650 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 0 Market for Laptop Batteries Supply Demand 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 Quantity

Specialized electronic batteries, such as those for laptops, are hard to dispose of safely, yielding excess pollution when one gets thrown away. Suppose that producing these batteries creates a social cost of $150 per unit. The accompanying diagram depicts the market for these batteries in which these social costs are not internalized. Please adjust the appropriate curves to represent the market if the social costs are internalized. 1,000 950 900 850 800 750 700 Price 650 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 0 Market for Laptop Batteries Supply Demand 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 Quantity

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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