If the Marginal Social Cost of Producing a good is higher than the marginal private cost -what has happened?
A Negative Externality. For example, in the production of Fuel, the private cost of producing the good (i.e £1) many not take into account the social cost of production (e.g pollution, climate change ect. )
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