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Negative Externalities and Market Failure

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AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, IB, OCR, WJEC

Last updated 21 Mar 2021

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Negative externalities are over-consumed/produced in free market due to third party effects not being taken into account by the free market. This short revision video takes you through a key analysis diagram to use.

Negative Externalities and Market Failure
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