Positive Externalities of Consumption as a Market Failure

Positive externalities of consumption arise whenever the benefit to society of a particular good exceed the benefits enjoyed by the individual consumers of the good. In other words, if the marginal social benefit exceeds the marginal private benefit, there is a positive externality of consumption. The free market will under-produce and consume such a good.

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