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This activity will usually be helpful for the last part of "Introduction to Microeconomics" course, while teaching and discussing situations of market failures, as externalities, and the justification for government intervention. The discussion could be helpful for students in all levels- undergraduate or graduate students who are introduced to the principles of economics for the first time, and could be really helpful to show how the economic theory is highly related to real life problems and situations. This is a relatively short discussion in class, could be appropriate to large or small groups, and it should be easy to adapt the discussion to specific class or students' level. It is better if the students will study first the theory and graphs describing negative externalities and will know basic concepts as marginal costs, but the discussion could also be the first introduction to market failures and externalities, as an intuitive background for understanding the theoretical concepts.

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