Markets exhibit robustness by endogenously responding to externalities: congestion costs are partly under individuals' control through residential and job-location choices (people with high value of time choose shorter commutes), and noise externalities are mitigated by sorting (e.g., locating a School of the Deaf near Logan Airport on cheap land), so markets reduce externality costs even without policy.

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Speaker

Clifford Winston

Evidence Quote

that's the markets way of trying to respond to an externality

Source

Clifford Winston on Market Failure and Government Failure 12/28/2009EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:37:54 AM

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