What are negative Externality in Production?

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  • What are negative Externality in Production?:
    • •Negative Externalities of Production are costs to third parties as a result of the actions of producers.
  • What are negative externalities of production?
    •Negative Externalities of Production are costs to third parties as a result of the actions of producers.
  • Negative Externality in Production:
    • In a free market, individual producers only consider their private costs of production, they ignore the full social cost of their actions (the negative externality in the form of costs to third parties) due to self interest. 
  • Negative externalities of Production:
    The end result is a misallocation of resources, allocative inefficiency where too many resources are allocated to this market than is socially desirable.
  • The misallocation of resources caused by negative externalities of production generates a welfare loss with society bearing more cost than benefit
  • Negative externalities of production:
    • The problem is caused by an overproduction of electricity so it must be a supply curve. And when electricity is produced it costs society more than private producers. so the msc curve must be greater than the mpc curve
  • Who is affected more by the production of electricity society or private producers?
    society
  • In the negative externalities of production diagram the supply curve shifts to the left