■ Figure 1 is a reminder of the effect of a negative production externality caused by pollution resulting from a production process, which was discussed in the centrespread in the November 2022 issue of ECONOMIC REVIEW.
■ The welfare loss shown as the shaded area arises because firms take decisions on the basis of the private costs that they face, so do not take the external costs into account.
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