Identify the type of market failure, explain why it occurs and provide a solution (i)    An auto repair shop convinces you that you need a $20,000 valve job when all you need is an oil change.                                                (ii)  Everyone in the neighbourhood would benefit if an empty lot were turned into a park but no entrepreneur will come forward to finance the transformation (iii) A barking dog in the backyard

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Identify the type of market failure, explain why it occurs and provide a solution

(i)    An auto repair shop convinces you that you need a $20,000 valve job when all you need is an oil change.                                               

(ii)  Everyone in the neighbourhood would benefit if an empty lot were turned into a park but no entrepreneur will come forward to finance the transformation

(iii) A barking dog in the backyard

(b)   Define the tragedy of the commons in your own words.

(c) Why are fish in the ocean an example of a resource that suffers from the tragedy of the commons but cattle grazing in a farmer’s pasture does not suffer from the tragedy of the commons?  

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