Negative externalities
What Negative externalities means in Economics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Negative externalities
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Reference: AQA
Costs such as carbon emissions that rapid growth can impose, illustrating the environmental costs of unsustainable growth.
Environmental degradation and other harms excluded from national income figures, despite affecting quality of life.
Environmental costs generated by increased global transport, such as carbon emissions.
Topics that use Negative externalities
- Economic growth and the economic cycle (AQA A-Level)
- Trade (AQA A-Level)
- Uses of national income data (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Aggregate demand
- Aggregate supply
- Asset price bubbles
- Comparative advantage
- Deadweight welfare loss
- Economic efficiency
- Economic fluctuations
- Economic integration
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