This is uncertain because you don’t know if the road is congested. or not. If the road were congested for example: during rush hour it would be nonexcludable because adding another vehicle can get in the way with the drivers already using the road. The consumption would be rival no one can consume.
d) Larger communities tend to consume greater quantities of a nonrival good than smaller communities. False. Even though there are more users in a larger community, all users have access once the good is provided, but not necessarily the chosen amount. Therefore, there is no reason larger communities tend to consume greater quantities of a nonrival good than smaller communities.
4. 2008, the US government spent about $1.6 million on the search for extraterrestrial
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Caithness Energy. a big company from New York, is building wind farms in eastern Oregon. Prior to construction the company offers residents $5,000 each to sign a waiver saying they will not complain about excessive noise from the turning wind turbines [Yardley, 2010]. Analyze this offer in terms of the Coase Theorem. According to the terms of the Coase Theorem implies that once property rights are established, government intervention is not required to deal with externalities. In this case, if the Caithness Energy can come to a bargaining agreement with all the residents that’s affected by the noise pollutant (wind turbine) by signing a $5,000 waiver, then there will be no need for government intervention. However, if some residents refuse to sign the waiver, this will impose a conflict and the government will need to intervene. Since, the Caithness Energy offered the residents involved $5,000 not to complain; apparently, the value of operating the wind turbines was in fact greater to the company than the value of quiet was to the residents, and it was probably easier for the company to proactively offer compensation to the households than it would have been to get the courts
The case of Kamloops v. Nielson was a landmark decision for tort law, since it established the duty of care principle in Canadian private law, which prior to this case was used in the Anns v. Merton case and expanded the scope of duty first identified in Donoghue v. Stevenson. In the historic case of Donoghue v. Stevenson, duty of care was established to include anyone that could be foreseeably harmed by someone’s actions, creating the neighbour principle. The Anns v. Merton case expanded the scope of the neighbour principle to including public bodies, such as the municipality. The case involved a faulty building foundation, which resulting in requiring repairs for the house, and whether the municipality should have to pay for the repairs, since it was the job of the municipality to inspect and ensure the building was properly constructed. Whether public tax allocations should be subject to tort litigations was placed in question in the case but the municipality was held liable for damages nevertheless.
Beard, Charles Austin. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCOhost (accessed February 23, 2014
At the turn of the 21st century, the already vulnerable residents of Mesquite, NM, were receiving an unequal distribution of air, water and other types of pollution because of a nearby multinational company called Helena Chemical. I will examine Helena Chemical Company by using justice theory, considering vulnerability and examining cases between the Mesquite community and Helena Chemical.
Simones, A. (1995). Lecture on FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. October 27, 1995. Constitutional Law, Southwest Missouri State University.
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If adding the budget for transportation cost is ignored, and even if the Merseyside project can add total throughput, the transportation division still cannot transfer the spared throughput due to the throughput is over the ability of the original transferring utility. Therefore, there will be a charge of ₤2millions which will be added to the project.
From working out how much fuel has been used I can work out how much
Given these points, Thomas’s idea are mostly correct and to a certain extent, there are still hopes for the groups that does goods. The California Water War and Hurricane Haiyan well explains that cities and nations can be greedy, selfish and cruel which proves Thomas’s point to be valid. But to a certain extent, groups may not be bad all the time. The Salvation Army and the American Red Cross shows the exception to Thomas’s argument, providing aids, assistance, educations, and donations to those who need it in various ways. In addition, the Iks may be selfish and cruel, behaving bad whether its individually or in groups, I believe the Iks can only sometimes be compared to the Committees, cities, or nations, but not all the time.
The only solution to tragedy of commons is to come up with a coercion that we collectively agreed upon. As he mentioned, “only individual’s conscience will solve it”
“When inequities are high and community assets are low, health outcomes are worst. When inequities are low and community assets are high, health outcomes are best”. Explain.
However, most of the people whose homes were in this area had given their properties up for just compensation by the city without a struggle; only a small portion went to the courts about losing their land. The main reason behind these people taking legal action was because apparently they held a connection to their land; many had spent much time working on their home to bring it to the condition it was, raising its value not only marketably but sentimentally as well (Linder). Despite the promise of being justly compensated for being relieved of their land - which would have been generous seeing as all the properties in question seemed to be in good condition, because the people who sued the state felt that the labor (or other reasons for attachment) outweighed whatever they would have received for it by the city they tried to keep their
Gans (1971) stated in modern society there are few events that can be considered functional or dysfunctional for society, and that most events result in benefits to some groups, while they present a cost to other groups. Poverty provides a great example of the negative impact on one group of society while providing benefits to another group in society. “All human endeavors have benefits and costs, material and nonmaterial, and that most such endeavors produce benefits for some people and groups and reparations for others. Even some of the most costly social evils benefit someone” (Gans, 2012). Poverty provides numerous benefits for the wealthy. However, the poor can also benefit from the wealthy.
The debate is divided in two camps. The supporters of the first idea claim that by doing good business, the economy as a whole benefits without the need to donate or contribute in distinct ways to the community. The second idea is that businesses should behave in such a way to create an environment where everyone should use its power to help out the community.
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
In order to focus my analysis, I shall center my essay upon a discussion of the following six-step argument, assumed here to be valid, but not necessarily sound, making the issue of soundness the key issue: