Non-excludability
What Non-excludability means in Economics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Once the good is provided, it is impossible or prohibitively expensive to prevent individuals from consuming it.
Once the good is provided, it is impossible or prohibitively expensive to prevent non-payers from benefiting.
Topics that use Non-excludability
- Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Capacity constraints
- Environmental market failures
- Excludability
- Free-rider problem
- Property rights
- Quasi-public good
- Quasi-public goods
- Technological change
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