Social benefit: The total benefit of consumption including both private benefit and any external benefit received by third parties.
How to apply it: Draw the marginal social benefit curve above the marginal private benefit (demand) curve when a positive externality exists.
Course: AP Microeconomics · Unit: Market Failure and the Role of Government
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