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c h a p t e r o v e r v i e w- harper college（c h p t e r o v e r v i e w -哈珀学院）

chapter thirty Government and Market FAILURE CHAPTER OVERVIEW Chapter 5 covered the economic functions of government, some facts about government expenditures and taxes, and the growth of the public sector. The present chapter extends and deepens our understanding of government’s role in a marketoriented economy. In the process, the authors identify some of the problems the government faces in carrying out its economic functions. The chapter begins by examining the topic of market failure. Through marginal analysis, there is a fuller discussion of public goods and externalities than is found in Chapter 5. Various approaches for limiting negative externalities are also presented. The growing pollution problem, including global warming, is discussed. The end of the chapter addresses the problem of information failures in the private sector and possible government solutions to this problem. WHAT’S NEW The chapter material has been tightened and reorganized. Much of the section “A Closer Look at Pollution” has been eliminated; some of the material is dealt with in the discussion of externalities. The discussion on “Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling” has been retained and a discussion on “Global Warming “ has been added. The term “benefit-cost analysis” has been changed to “cost-benefit analysis”. A new cost-benefit example is used in Table 30.2. The Last Word is new. One Web-Based Question has been revised and the other is new. INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter, students should be able to: Describe graphically the collective demand curve for a particular public good and explain this curve. Explain why the supply curve for public goods is upward sloping and explain how the optimal quantity of a public good is determined. Identify the purpose of cost-benefit analysis and explain the major difficulty in applying this analysis. Explain what is meant by spillovers or externalities. Describe graphically and verbally how an overallocation of