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How someone else’s pollution becomes your bill

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A factory dumps sludge into a river to save money, and the town downstream gets to foot the environmental bill. Externalities are the unintended side effects of a transaction that wildly impact third parties who never consented to be involved. It is a brilliant way for producers to privatize their profits while making their problems purely public.

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