Externalities can be broken into two different categories. First, externalities can be measured as good or bad as the side effects may enhance or be detrimental to an external party.

Production externalities are usually unintended, and their impacts are typically unrelated to and unsolicited by anyone. They can have economic, social, or environmental side effects.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) addresses negative externalities with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. How does U.S. Trade Representative Greer describe negative externalities?

These externalities would include such things as industrial manufacturing causing extreme air pollution, which effects human and non-human life, water pollution caused by the runoff of chemicals ...

Impact accounting, by placing dollar values on negative externalities imposed by companies such as Coca Cola, can concentrate hearts and minds of decision makers. Engagement and dialogue with the ...

The presence of negative externalities is often a cause for government intervention—hence smoking bans. The government tries to enforce choices that maximize the social good.

Enlightened Economics Weighs Externalities The externalities created by the pursuit of corporate self-interest and profit above all else can no longer be hidden or sent far away from the public eye.

Al Gore and David Blood’s op-ed “ESG Investing Is Consistent with Fiduciary Duty” (Nov. 9) includes two examples that highlight the best way to handle externalities, the economic term for ...

If you add up all the mileage-related externalities, namely congestion, accidents, and local air pollution, the cost comes to a whopping $2.10 per gallon.