Practice mode Market

My neighbour burns garden waste and my house fills with smoke. What is this an example of?

Correct answer B. A consumption externality

Explanation

The smoke is a cost imposed on a third party by a household's own activity rather than by a firm's production, so it is classed as a negative consumption externality.

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