Economics of the environment : selected readings

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Economics of the environment : selected readings / edited by Robert N. Stavins.

Stavins, R. N. (Robert N.), 1948- (Added Author).

Summary:

In its first three editions, edited by Robert and Nancy Dorfman, Economics of the Environment gained a tremendous readership in courses offered at hundreds of colleges and universities around the world. Now under the editorship of Robert N. Stavins, this Fourth Edition extends the tradition of excellence achieved by its predecessors, offering a new generation of students the strongest possible grounding in the primary literature. The readings in this volume, selected for their accessibility, coverage, and currency, span the full scope of environmental economics, and their authors comprise a veritable Who's Who of the field. -- Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 0393975231 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780393975239 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xii, 659 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: How economists see the environment / Don Fullerton and Robert N. Stavins -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- The problem of social cost / Ronald Coase -- Environmental economics: a survey / Maureen L. Cropper and Wallace E. Oates -- Sustainability: an economist's perspective / Robert M. Solow -- Environmental regulation and the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing: what does the evidence tell us? / Adam B. Jaffe,...[et al.] -- Toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness relationship / Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde -- Tightening environmental standards: the benefit-cost or the no-cost paradigm? / Karen Palmer, Wallace E. Oates, and Paul R. Portney -- Nonmarket valuation of environmental resources: an interpretive appraisal / V. Kerry Smith -- The contingent valuation debate: why economists should care / Paul R. Portney -- Valuing the environment through contingent valuation / W. Michael Hanemann -- Contingent valuation: is some number better than no number? / Peter A. Diamond and Jerry A. Hausman -- Is there a role for benefit-cost analysis in environmental, health and safety regulation? / Kenneth J. Arrow,...[et al.] -- Regulating the regulators / W. Kip Viscusi -- Cost-benefit analysis: an ethical critique / Steven Kelman -- Replies to Steven Kelman / James V. DeLong,...[et al.] -- Economic instruments for environmental regulation / Tom H. Tietenberg -- Environmental policy making in a second-best setting / Lawrence H. Goulder -- Economic prescriptions for environmental problems: how the patient followed the doctor's orders / Robert W. Han -- It's immoral to buy the right to pollute / Michael J. Sandel -- Replies to Michael Sandel / Steven Shavell,...[et al.] -- An interim evaluation of sulfur dioxide emissions training / Richard Schmalensee,...[et al.] -- What can we learn from the grand policy experiment? Lessons from SO₂ allowance trading / Robert N. Stavins -- Reflections on the economics of climate change / William D. Nordhaus -- The cost of combating global warming: facing the tradeoffs / Thomas C. Schelling -- Kyoto's unfinished business / Henry D. Jacoby, Ronald G. Prinn, and Richard Schmalensee -- Economic analysis and ecosystems: some concepts and issues / R. David Simpson -- Conflicts and choices in biodiversity preservation / Andrew Metrick and Marting L. Weitzman -- The choice of regulatory instruments in environmental policy / Nathaniel O. Keohane, Richard L. Revesz, and Robert N. Stavins -- The political economy of market-based environmental policy: the U.S. acid rain program / Paul L. Joskow and Richard Schmalensee -- A political economy in an ecological web / Jason F. Shogren.