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Chapter 28: Market Failures — Economics 101

Public goods, positive and negative externalities, and black markets — the four canonical situations where free markets produce socially suboptimal outcomes and government intervention has a defensible case.
Chapter 61: The Environment and the Economy — Economics 101

Environmental protection and economic growth are usually framed as opposing forces — but economics offers tools to achieve both simultaneously. This final chapter explains how price incentives, property rights, cap-and-trade systems, carbon markets, and the Coase theorem can align the interests of firms and the environment more effectively than blunt regulation alone.