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This document summarizes a paper that discusses the debate between William Kapp and Wilfred Beckerman regarding social costs and externalities. It argues that Kapp and others viewed social costs through the lens of violations of social rights, while Beckerman and mainstream economists viewed them as challenges to the Pareto efficiency of free markets. The document also discusses how the dominant view in economics focuses only on externalities that reduce Pareto efficiency, ignoring other contexts or dimensi

Author

Marith Rosales

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