Context 2: The Social and Environmental Costs of Disposable Vapes
Extract D (line 8) states ‘Governments worldwide are increasingly turning to outright bans and strict regulatory measures to curb the environmental and health impacts of disposable single-use vapes.’
Using the extracts and your economic knowledge, assess the view that regulation is the best way of dealing with the market failure that results from the sale and consumption of disposable single-use vapes.
378 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets, covering 1.8.1 How markets and prices allocate resources, 1.8.2 The meaning of market failure, 1.8.3 Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods, 1.8.4 Positive and negative externalities in consumption and production, 1.8.5 Merit and demerit goods, 1.8.6 Market imperfections, 1.8.7 Competition policy (A-level only), 1.8.8 Public ownership, privatisation, regulation and deregulation of markets (A-level only), 1.8.9 Government intervention in markets, and 1.8.10 Government failure. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.