Evaluating the Limits of Property Rights Solutions
While defining and enforcing property rights can be an effective method for resolving local externalities (e.g., a single factory polluting a specific river), its effectiveness can diminish when applied to large-scale, diffuse externalities (e.g., carbon emissions from millions of sources contributing to global climate change). Evaluate why assigning property rights becomes a significantly more challenging solution as the scale and complexity of an externality increase. In your response, identify and explain at least two major obstacles that hinder this approach for global issues.
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