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The Theory of Environmental Policy - 2nd Edition

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusammenfassung In this book! Professors Baumol and Oates provide a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy. They present a formal! theoretical treatment of those factors influencing the quality of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Introduction: economic and environmental policy; Part I. On The Theory of Externalities: 2. Relevance and the theory of externalities; 3. Externalities: definition, significant types, and optimal-pricing conditions; 4. Externalities: formal analysis; 5. Uncertainty and the choice of policy instruments: price or quantity controls?; 6. Market imperfections and the number of participants; 7. Are competitive outputs with detrimental externalities necessarily excessive?; 8. Detrimental externalities and nonconvexities in the production set; 9. On optimal pricing of exhaustible resources; Part II. On The Design of Environmental Policy: 10. Introduction to Part II; 11. Efficiency without optimality: the charges and standards approach; 12. Marketable emission permits for protection of the environment; 13. Stochastic influences, direct controls, and taxes; 14. Taxes versus subsidies: a partial analysis; 15. Environmental protection and the distribution of income; 16. International environmental issues; 17. national or local standards for environmental quality?; Index.

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Authors William Baumol, William J. Baumol, Wallace Oates, Wallace E. Oates
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.02.1988
 
EAN 9780521311120
ISBN 978-0-521-31112-0
Dimensions 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology

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