{"id":9715,"date":"2022-04-14T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=9715"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:43:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:43:47","slug":"module-11-discussion-externalities-and-public-goods","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/chapter\/module-11-discussion-externalities-and-public-goods\/","title":{"raw":"Module 11 Discussion: Externalities and Public Goods","rendered":"Module 11 Discussion: Externalities and Public Goods"},"content":{"raw":"Respond to the following prompt in a post with a minimum of 150 words. Then comment on at least TWO other posts.\r\n\r\nIs education a public good? Does education have external benefits? If so, what are some of those public benefits? In your opinion are the external benefits large or small? Why? What should government do to promote the efficient provision of products that have external benefits? If you think that government should put more resources into education, what might be some of the opportunity costs of that decision? How would an economist determine the right amount of government support for education?","rendered":"<p>Respond to the following prompt in a post with a minimum of 150 words. Then comment on at least TWO other posts.<\/p>\n<p>Is education a public good? Does education have external benefits? If so, what are some of those public benefits? In your opinion are the external benefits large or small? Why? What should government do to promote the efficient provision of products that have external benefits? If you think that government should put more resources into education, what might be some of the opportunity costs of that decision? How would an economist determine the right amount of government support for education?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-9715\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Discussion: Externalities and Public Goods. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Jim Roberts and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":428269,"menu_order":30,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Discussion: Externalities and Public Goods\",\"author\":\"Jim Roberts and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-9715","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":9619,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/9715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/9715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/9715\/revisions\/9716"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/9619"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/9715\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-microeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}