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Microeconomics 3rd Edition Hubbard Solutions Manual 1
Microeconomics 3rd Edition Hubbard Solutions Manual 1
▪ A negative externality is a cost that affects someone who is not directly involved in the
production or consumption of a good or service.
▪ A positive externality is a benefit that affects someone who is not directly involved in the
production or consumption of a good or service.
▪ The Coase theorem states that if transactions costs are low, private bargaining can result in
an efficient solution to the problem of externalities.
▪ When private solutions to externalities are not feasible, government intervention in the
form of a tax (negative externality) or subsidy (positive externality) can bring about an
efficient level of output.
▪ Government policies to deal with negative externalities include a command and control
approach and a market-based approach.
▪ The four categories of goods are private, public, quasi-public, and common resources.
Key Terms
Coase theorem, p. 142. The argument of Private benefit, p. 134. The benefit received by
economist Ronald Coase that if transactions the consumer of a good or service.
costs are low, private bargaining will result in an
efficient solution to the problem of externalities. Private cost, p. 134. The cost borne by the
producer of a good or service
Command-and-control approach, p. 145. An
approach that involves the government imposing Private good, p. 148. A good that is both rival
quantitative limits on the amount of pollution and excludable.
firms are allowed to emit or requiring firms to
install specific pollution control devices. Property rights, p. 136. The rights individuals
or businesses have to the exclusive use of their
Common resource, p. 148. A good that is rival property, including the right to buy or sell it.
but not excludable.
Public good, p. 148. A good that is both
Excludability, p. 148. The situation in which nonrivalrous and nonexcludable.
anyone who does not pay for a good cannot
consume it. Rivalry, p. 148. The situation that occurs when
one person’s consuming a unit of a good means
Externality, p. 134. A benefit or cost that no one else can consume it.
affects someone who is not directly involved in
the production or consumption of a good or Social benefit, p. 134. The total benefit from
service. consuming a good or service, including both the
private benefit and any external benefit.
Free riding, p. 148. Benefiting from a good
without paying for it. Social cost, p. 134. The total cost of producing
a good or service, including both the private cost
Market failure, p. 136. A situation in which and any external cost.
the market fails to produce the efficient level of
output. Tragedy of the commons, p. 155. The
tendency for a common resource to be overused.
Pigovian taxes and subsidies, p. 145.
Government taxes and subsidies intended to Transactions costs, p. 142. The costs in time
bring about an efficient level of output in the and other resources that parties incur in the
presence of externalities. process of agreeing to and carrying out an
exchange of goods or services.
Chapter Outline
>>Teaching Tips
Economics in YOUR LIFE! asks students what they consider the “best” level of pollution to be. Answers
are found at the end of the chapter. An Inside Look at the end of the chapter explores the proposed cap-
and-trade policy to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.
An externality is a benefit or cost that affects someone who is not directly involved in the production or
consumption of a good or service. There is a positive externality in the production of college educations,
because people who do not pay for college educations will nonetheless benefit from them. There is a
negative externality in the generation of electricity because, for example, people with homes on a lake from
which fish and wildlife have disappeared because of acid rain have incurred a cost, even though they might
not have bought electricity from the polluting utility.
>>Teaching Tips
Industrial pollution is often cited as an example of a negative externality, but you can also use smoking as
a classroom example. Most college students grew up in an era where smoking was much less socially
acceptable than when their parents and grandparents were young. Students are often stunned to learn that
smoking—by both students and instructors—was allowed in many college classrooms as late as the 1970s.
Although few, if any, colleges allow smoking in classroom buildings now, many bars and restaurants have
smoking sections. Ask your students (a) if they would be willing to pay smokers to not smoke while they
are in the same restaurant or (b) if they have ever chosen to sit in a restaurant’s smoking section to avoid a
longer wait for a table in a non-smoking section.
Figures 5-1 and 5-2 illustrate the impact of externalities on market equilibrium.
By 2009, 23 states, including California, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York, had enacted laws to
prohibit smoking in workplaces. But Ike’s Bar-B-Q Pit is not located in any of these states. Some of Ike’s
non-smoking customers, including some who suffer from asthma, have petitioned Ike to adopt a no-
smoking rule for his restaurant. Upon hearing of the petition, some of Ike’s other customers complained
that they have smoked in Ike’s restaurant for years and would not patronize the restaurant if the no-smoking
rule were adopted. Ike is greatly concerned because he does not wish to lose business from either his
smoking or non-smoking customers.
Draw a graph illustrating the externality associated with Ike’s Bar-B-Q Pit and explain how this externality
causes a deviation from economic efficiency in this market.
Step 3: Describe how the externality causes a deviation from economic efficiency.
The economically efficient outcome is for the quantity of meals served at Ike’s restaurant to be
Q2 and the price of the meals to be P2. (Ike’s, no doubt, has a varied menu with different meals
with different prices. To simplify this problem, assume P2 is an average meal price.) This is
IN DEFENCE:
PART VI
T E 1914 P “S ’ R ”
As each battalion now holds three of these rifles on charge for sniping
purposes (G.R.O. 3567) it is essential that your snipers shall understand the
main differences between this and the R.S.M.L.E.
It is as well to understand at once that a far higher degree of accuracy can
be obtained from the Enfield 1914 than from the R.S.M.L.E., and this is the
reason why it has been issued to snipers. The higher degree of accuracy is due
to two main causes:—
1. The rifles so issued have been specially selected from thousands of other
rifles of the same pattern, on account of their accuracy, after severe and
exhaustive tests.
2. The rifle is fitted with an aperture or peep sight, which, as will be readily
acknowledged by most expert riflemen, possesses a great advantage over
the open U or V backsight. It is therefore unnecessary to focus the
backsight, and the blur which is unavoidable when aiming with the open
U or V backsight is entirely absent with the aperture or peep sight.
The following are the main differences which must be noted and
thoroughly understood in order to get the best results from the new rifle.
THE SIGHT
The rear of the body is made in the form of a bed in which the sight
should always lie when not in use. In this position the aperture battle sight
can be used if desired, but it should seldom be necessary for the sniper to
use this sight. The battle sight is actually sighted to hit on the aiming mark
at about 400 yards’ range.
The sight leaf is hinged on to the sight bed and is raised to an angle of
about 90° from the sight bed for use. There are in all four positions in
which it will rest. (See diagram 1.)
1. At an angle of about 45° from the sight bed; this is the most
convenient position for “sight setting.”
2. At an angle of about 90°; this is the position when in use.
3. At an angle of about 135°.
4. At an angle of about 180°.
The two last positions have been made possible so as to avoid
damaging the sight by accidentally knocking it, if raised against
undergrowth, etc., when skirmishing.
Note:—The bolt lever must not be raised and drawn back when the
sight is in No. 4 position, as if this is done the battle sight is sheared off.
Diagram showing 4 Positions of Backlight.
No 1.
ELEVATION
FINE ADJUSTMENT
The sight is fitted with a fine adjustment in the form of a worm screw
with a milled head. By rotating the milled head clockwise we raise the
elevation, and by turning it anti-clockwise we lower it. The top of the
milled head is marked off into three divisions, each of which is equivalent
to one minute of angle, which is about 1″ per 100 yards of the range. Thus
at 100 yards it would equal 1″ rise, or fall, on the target; at 200 yards 2″;
at 300 yards 3″, and so on. A reading line is marked on the top of the sight
leaf to enable these minute adjustments to be made. (See diagram.)
The advantage of a fine adjustment screw on this principle lies in the
fact that, without alteration of foresight, the rifle can be zeroed with
exactness in a vertical sense, for any individual hold, thus: If a man, when
zeroing his rifle at 100 yards’ range, finds the point of mean impact to be
3 inches low, or high, he has only to remember that he must first
reproduce on his backsight the range for which he is firing, and then add,
or subtract, 3 minutes of elevation, i.e., by giving the milled head one
complete turn or revolution in the required direction; he will then have his
correct zero for that particular range. (Note:—Before starting to zero at
100 yards, he must raise the sight to 200 yards, and then take off 3
minutes; this is equivalent to setting his sight to 100 yards (which is not
marked). With the sight so set, the “point of mean impact” should be 1½
inches to 2 inches above the point of aim.)
In addition the fine adjustment can be used to overcome the difficulty
of not having the sight calibrated to read to fifties at the closer ranges. By
memorizing the following table, the sniper will have no difficulty in
adjusting his sight to 250, 350, 450 yards, and so on:
The table has not been taken further, as 600 yards is the limit of
“individual effort.”
LATERAL ZERO
THE MAGAZINE
SAFETY DEVICES
GAS ESCAPES
Of these there are three. On the right of the hood; on the under side of
the bolt, one in front and the other in rear of the extractor ring. They
perform the same duties as the gas escapes in the R.S.M.L.E., except that
the one in front of the extractor ring prevents air-pockets—which would
act as brakes—from forming.
PULL OFF
This is slightly different to that of the R.S.M.L.E., the first pull being
from 2 to 3 lbs., and the second from 5 to 6 lbs. The first pull is
comparatively long, and it is necessary to obtain, by practice, the correct
“trigger squeeze” before firing the rifle for the first time.
GENERAL.
THE END
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