For example, if suspected of having a contagious disease, an individual may be forced into hospital to receive treatment, even against their will.
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Subscribe Thanks. Traffic congestion : When more people use public roads, road users experience congestion costs such as more waiting in traffic and longer trip times.
Negative[ edit ] Light pollution is an example of an externality because the consumption of street lighting has an effect on bystanders that is not compensated for by the consumers of the lighting.
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There you have it. External costs[ edit ] Demand curve with external costs; if social costs are not accounted for price is too low to cover all costs and hence quantity produced is unnecessarily high because the producers of the good and their customers are essentially underpaying the total, real factors of production.
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