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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Clifford WinstonEvidence Quote
“that's the markets way of trying to respond to an externality”
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