Econ 201 Market Failure

Lecture slides

Lecture notes on Market Failure

For interest:

• • John Oliver on vaccines (Last Week Tonight, HBO, June 25, 2017)

  • "Information is a Public Good," Beneficial Externalities of Journalism (Pro-Market, June 30, 2017)

  • Government failure and US sugar policy (Project Syndicate, 2017)

  • Paul Krugman on the economics of climate change (New York Times, April 11, 2010)

  • Negative externalities from failure to vaccinate

  • Beneficial externalities from false beliefs (VoxEu, June 25, 2017)

  • Health Insurance death spirals (Vox, June 22, 2017)

  • What if other industries worked like health insurance?  (Tom the Dancing Bug)

  • The wonderful Frazz: