1) Noting down research in the hope that someone (maybe me) might remember it: Pigovian Tax: A special tax levied on activites that create excess social costs, such as polluting the environment.
2) It's interesting to compare the disappearing incandescent lightbulbs with the disappearing cathode ray television set. The manufacturers have decided, independently and without external influence, to discontinue production of CRT sets, without regard to arguments that the CRT gives better pictures than the flat-panel variety. There's a hidden economic message in this, but I'm blown if I know what it is.
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2) It's interesting to compare the disappearing incandescent lightbulbs with the disappearing cathode ray television set. The manufacturers have decided, independently and without external influence, to discontinue production of CRT sets, without regard to arguments that the CRT gives better pictures than the flat-panel variety. There's a hidden economic message in this, but I'm blown if I know what it is.