Scenario 11-3 Consider the Following Goods

question 70

Essay

Scenario 11-3
Consider the following goods:
• a fish fillet served at a restaurant
• fish in the ocean
• exotic fish in a huge aquarium in a privately-owned building
-Refer to Scenario 11-3. Do any of these goods cause an externality? If so, which one(s)? Positive or negative? Briefly explain.

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Definitions:

Public Policy

Policy principles and practices considered to be in the interests of the public or the community at large.

Fair Labor Standards Act

U.S. law that establishes minimum wage, overtime pay eligibility, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.

Child Labor

Employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally harmful.

Agricultural Employment

Employment in the cultivation and production of crops, raising of livestock, and other activities related to farming.