1. Both public goods and common property
resources involve externalities.
a) Are the externalities associated with public
goods generally positive or negative? Use examples in your answer.
Is the free-market quantity of public goods generally greater or
less than the efficient quantity?
b) Are the externalities associated with common
resources generally positive or negative? Use examples in your
answer. Is the free-market use of common resources generally
greater or less than the efficient use?
2) What do we mean by ‘rivalrous in consumption’?
3) Public Goods and Common Resources share one of the above 2
characteristics. Which is it – nonexcludable or rivalrous in
consumption?
4) For each of public good & common resource, see if you can
answer the following
a. On an INDIVIDUAL level, what is true about the MB (for the
individual) vs. the MC for consuming / providing the good. In other
words, for a common resource, what is true...
What do excludable and rival mean in the context of describing
the four types of goods we discussed in class? Give examples of
each type of good and show how they are rival, nonrival, excludable
or nonexcludable.
VIII. Externalities and public goods and Common resources
(Chapter 16) a. Positive and negative externalities what are they
and examples b. How to correct for negative externalities. c.
Concept of excludability and rivalry in consumptions d. Problems
with public goods e. Problems with common resources.
The concepts of Externalities, Common Recourses, and Public
Goods, how can we apply these concepts to what is going on today
with the decisions being made regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic? What
externalities are there from our own behavior choices? What are the
Common Resources involved? What are the identifiable public goods?
Where do face masks, social distancing, and the health care system
fit in with all this?
What is the context of the article? (By context, we mean
describing the social, political, etc. landscape that surrounds a
topic or idea)
Provide 4 claim made in the following article. Give explanations
and evidence to support the claim
What was the bias in the following article and explain it
Harmonizing nurse education with U.S. hurts Canada's edge
ADRIANA BARTON
PUBLISHED MAY 12, 2016
A push to "harmonize" nursing education in Canada and the United
States may threaten Canada's high...
In the context of public goods, what is meant by non-rivalry
versus rivalry in consumption? What is meant by non-excludability
versus excludability in consumption? Give an example of a commodity
that is both non-rival and non-excludable? Could a commodity have
one of these properties without the other? What is an open access
resource? How does it differ from a private good? How does it
differ from a public good? Could private provision of a public good
occur? Give an example...