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00) times the height (20), so the net loss to consumers is $100. Charge Polluters a Price For virtually all economists, including me, the solution is straightforward. The government must step in and assume ownership on behalf of the public, and then do what a typical private owner of a resource does: charge a price for its use. In other words, the market fails because a key element-ownership of a valuable resource-is absent. The solution is to restore the market by restoring the missing ingredient: ownership of the resource, and a price for its use.
One $40 tractor raises output $20 per year-a 50 percent return. You assumed that the J savers will capture the full return, so we will pay them a 50 percent interest rate, or $20 per year. But isn't it possible they will capture only a fraction of the 50 percent return, and we will capture a fraction ourselves? " "I have a confession:' said Eve. "You are right. If the tractor raises the marginal product of our labor or land (the increase in output due to the last unit of labor or land), then we will capture a fraction of the return, so the outcome won't be so bad.
Clearly, cutting your P all the way to $0 would be a mistake. So how do you find the best P? 1 gives you the infonnation you need. Start at the left in the first row. If you set your P at $20, buyers would demand a Q of only 1 unit, your total revenue (TR) would be $20 (because TR equals P times Q). Since your total cost (TC) of producing a Q of 1 unit happens to be $11, your profit would be $9 (because total profit equals TR minus TC, $20 - $11). Now go to the second row for P. If you set your P at $19, buyers would demand a Q of 2 units, your TR would be $38 ($19 x 2).