Chapter 17 - Externalities and Environment

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Electric pricing

________ does not account for the negative externalities or costs that fossil- fueled power plants impose.

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Overuse

________ reduces the resource's quality and quantity, making it rare and perhaps disappearing.

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Negative externalities

________ impose costs on society that are typically not accounted for in market prices.

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Output limits

________ or levies may compel individuals to use the resource at a socially optimum pace.

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Biological resources

________ such as fish, game, forests, rivers, grasslands, and agricultural soil, in general, are renewable if properly managed.

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Externalities

unexpected consequences of acts that are beneficial and meaningful in and of themselves

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