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Economics and the environment / Eban S. Goodstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1995.ISBN:
  • 0130887668
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7 20
LOC classification:
  • HD75.6 .G66 1995
Contents:
1. Four Economic Questions About Global Warming -- 2. Ethics and Economics -- 3. Pollution As an Externality -- 4. The Efficiency Standard -- 5. Future Generations, Dynamic Efficiency, and Sustainability -- 6. Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection -- 7. Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection -- 8. Benefit-Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard -- 9. Is More Really Better? Growth and Welfare -- 10. The Safety Standard -- 11. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation -- 12. An Overview of Environmental Legislation -- 13. Monitoring and Enforcement -- 14. Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory -- 15. Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice -- 16. Promoting Clean Technology: Theory -- 17. Promoting Clean Technology: Practice -- 18. Energy Policy and the Environment -- 19. The Environment, Development, and Poverty -- 20. Population Pressure and Consumption Growth -- 21. Environmental Policy in Poor Countries -- 22. The Economics of Global Agreements -- T1. The Importance of Being Convex -- T2. Imperfect Regulation in an Uncertain World -- T3. Input-Output Models and Life-Cycle Analysis -- T4. Incentive-Compatible Regulation.
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Two Week Loan Two Week Loan College Lane Learning Resources Centre Main Shelves 333.7 GOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4403364139
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Four Economic Questions About Global Warming -- 2. Ethics and Economics -- 3. Pollution As an Externality -- 4. The Efficiency Standard -- 5. Future Generations, Dynamic Efficiency, and Sustainability -- 6. Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection -- 7. Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection -- 8. Benefit-Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard -- 9. Is More Really Better? Growth and Welfare -- 10. The Safety Standard -- 11. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation -- 12. An Overview of Environmental Legislation -- 13. Monitoring and Enforcement -- 14. Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory -- 15. Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice -- 16. Promoting Clean Technology: Theory -- 17. Promoting Clean Technology: Practice -- 18. Energy Policy and the Environment -- 19. The Environment, Development, and Poverty -- 20. Population Pressure and Consumption Growth -- 21. Environmental Policy in Poor Countries -- 22. The Economics of Global Agreements -- T1. The Importance of Being Convex -- T2. Imperfect Regulation in an Uncertain World -- T3. Input-Output Models and Life-Cycle Analysis -- T4. Incentive-Compatible Regulation.