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Consumption, production, and investment decisions of individuals, households, and firms often affect people not directly involved in the transactions. Sometimes these indirect effects are tiny. But ...

An externality is a cost or benefit related to the production or consumption of a good or service that affects third parties unrelated to the production or consumption. It is generally the unintended, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Chemical Safety and Waste Management convened the hearing on plastic production and pollution.

This paper examines the effect of energy production on health using a recent strike that affected oil refineries in France as a natural experiment. First, we show that the temporary reduction in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With the determination of principal parameters of producing and pollution abatement technologies, this paper quantifies abatement and external ...