Economics and the environment:
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Autor: Goodstein, Eban S
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Contents
Preface xi
INTRODUCTION 1
Chapter 1 Four Economic Questions about Global Warming 3
1.0 Introduction 3
1.1 Four Questions 4
1.2 How Much Pollution Is Too Much? 8
1.3 Is Government Up to the Job? 13
1.4 How Can We Do Better? 14
1.5 Can We Resolve Global Issues? 16
1.6 Summary 18
PARTI: HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS TOO MUCH? 23__________________
Chapter 2 Ethics and Economics 25
2.0 Introduction 25
2.1 Utility and Utilitarianism 26
22 Social Weif are 28
23 Summary 31
Chapter 3 Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities 34
3.0 Introduction 34
3.1 The Open Access Problem 36
3.2 The Public Goods Problem 41
3.3 Summary 44
Appendix 3A: Overfishing, ITQs, and Aquaculture 48
VI CONTENTS
Chapter 4 The Efficiency Standard 53
4.0 Introduction 53
4.1 Efficiency Defined 53
4.2 Efficient Pollution Levels 56
4.3 Marginals and Totais 60
4.4 The Coase Theorem Introduced 62
4.5 Air Pollution Control in Baltimore: Calculating the
Efficient Standard 63
4.6 The Ethical Basis of the Efficiency Standard 64
4.7 Summary 65
Chapter 5 The Safety Standard 72
5.0 Introduction 72
5.1 Defining the Right to Safety 73
5.2 The Safety Standard: Inefficient 75
5.3 The Safety Standard: Not Cost-Effective 76
5.4 The Safety Standard: Regressive? 78
5.5 Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities: Safety versus Efficiency 80
5.6 Summary 83
Chapter 6 Sustainability: A Neoclassical View 88
6.0 Introduction 88
6.1 Measuring Sustainability: Net National Weifare 90
6.2 Natural Capital Depreciation 93
6.3 Future Benefits, Costs, and Discounting 96
6.4 An Example of Discounting: Lightbulbs 98
6.5 Choosing the Right Discount Rate for Pollution Control 99
6.6 Social Discounting versus Market Discounting 102
6.7 Summary 106
Appendix 6A: Nonrenewable Resource Economics 101 111
Chapter 7 Sustainability: An Ecological View 117
7.0 Introduction 117
7.1 Malthus and Ecological Economics 119
12 Measuring Sustainability 122
7.3 The Precautionary Principle 124
7.4 Markets, Governments, and the Environmental Impact
Statement 130
7.5 The Ecological-Neoclassical Debate in Context 132
7.6 Summary 134
Appendix 7A: Game Theory and the Safe
Minimum Standard 138
CONTENTS VII
Chapter 8 Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection 142
8.0 Introduction 142
8.1 Use, Option, and Existence Value: Types of
Nonmarket Benefits 143
8.2 Consumer Surplus, WTP, and WTA: Measuring Benefits 144
8.3 Risk: Assessment and Perception 147
8.4 Measuring Benefits I: Contingent Valuation 150
8.5 Measuring Benefits II: Travel Cost 154
8.6 Measuring Benefits III: Hedonic Regression 156
8.7 The Value of Human Life 156
8.8 Summary 159
Appendix 8A: WTA and WTP Redux 164
Chapter 9 Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection 168
9.0 Introduction 168
9.1 Engineering Costs 169
9.2 Productivity Impacts of Regulation 171
9.3 Employment Impacts of Regulation 174
9.4 Monopoly Costs 180
9.5 General Equilibrium Effects 181
9.6 Summary 186
Chapter 10 Benefit-Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard 191
10.0 Introduction 191
10.1 Doing Benefit-Cost: Lead Standards 193
10.2 Doing Benefit-Cost: Landfill Regulation 200
10.3 Political Influence in Benefit-Cost 203
10.4 Is Benefit-Cost Up to the Job? 205
10.5 Summary 206
Chapter 11 Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfere 212
11.0 Introduction 212
11.1 Money and Happiness 213
11.2 Social Norms and the Rat Race 214
11.3 Positional Goods and Consumption Extemalities 218
11.4 Weif are with Social Consumption 220
11.5 Controlling the Impact of Consumption 222
11.6 Summary 225
VH1 CONTENTS
PART II: IS GOVERNMENT UPTO THE JOB? 231
Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation 233
12.0 Introduction 233
12.1 The Process of Environmental Regulation 234
12.2 Regulation under Imperfect Information 236
12.3 Bureaucratic Discretion and Political Influence 238
12.4 WhoWins the Influence Game? 240
12.5 Political Reform of Regulation 243
12.6 Better Information, More Democracy 245
12.7 Summary 247
Chapter 13 An Overview of Environmental Legislation 252
13.0 Introduction 252
13.1 Cleaning the Air 253
13.2 Fishable and Swimmable Waters 257
13.3 Hazardous Waste Disposal on Land 259
13.4 Chemicals and Pesticides 263
13.5 Endangered Species Protection 266
13.6 Summary 267
Chapter 14 The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles 271
14.0 Introduction 271
14.1 Accomplishments of Environmental Regulation 271
14.2 Normative Criticisms of Regulation 275
14.3 Cost-Effectiveness Criticisms of Regulation 276
14.4 Beyond Regulation? Promoting Clean Technology 278
14.5 Summary 281
Chapter 15 Monitoring and Enforcement 284
15.0 Introduction 284
15.1 The Economics of Crime 284
15.2 The Economics of Punishment 287
15.3 The Compliance Record 290
15.4 The Political Economy of Enforcement 291
15.5 Citizen Enforcement 294
15.6 Cost-Effective Enforcement 295
15.7 Summary 295
PART1H: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER? 301__________________________________
Chapter 16 Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory 303
16.0 Introduction 303
16.1 The Cost-Effectiveness Rule 304
16.2 IB Regulation and Cost-Effectiveness 308
CONTENTS IX
16.3 IB Regulation and Technological Progress 311
16.4 Potential Problems with IB Regulation 313
16.5 Summary 320
Appendix 16A: Imperfect Regulation in an
Uncertain World 324
Appendix 16B: Incentive-Compatible Regulation 330
Chapter 17 Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice 336
17.0 Introduction 336
17.1 Lead and Chlorofluorocarbons 337
17.2 TradingUrbanAirPollutants 338
17.3 Marketable Permits and Acid Rain 342
17.4 Recent U.S. Cap-and-Trade Moves: Mercury and Carbon
Dioxide? 346
17.5 Carbon Trading in the United States 349
17.6 The European Emissions Trading System 351
17.7 Pollution Taxes and Their Relatives 353
17.8 Summary 357
Chapter 18 Promoting Clean Technology: Theory 362
18.0 Introduction 362
18.1 Path Dependence and Clean Technology 363
18.2 Clean Technology Defined 365
18.3 If You re So Smart, Why Aren t You Rieh? 368
18.4 Picking the Winning Path 372
18.5 Promoting Early-Stage Clean Technologies 373
18.6 Promoting Late-Stage Clean Technologies 376
18.7 Clean Technology: Two Case Studies 380
18.8 Summary 384
Chapter 19 Energy Policy and the Future 391
19.0 Introduction 391
19.1 Technology Options: Electricity and Heat 392
19.2 Policy Options: Electricity and Heat 400
19.3 Technology Options: Transport 405
19.4 Policy Options: Transport 410
19.5 Slowing Global Warnung at a Profit? 414
19.6 Summary 417
PART IV: CAN WE RESOLVE GLOBAL ISSUES? 421____________________
Chapter 20 Poverty, Population, and the Environment 423
20.0 Introduction 423
20.1 Poverty and the Environment 425
20.2 The Population Picture in Perspective 429
CONTENTS
20.3 An Economic Approach to Family Size 432
20.4 Controlling Population Growth 433
20.5 Consumption and the Global Environment 438
20.6 Envisioning a Sustainable Future 441
20.7 Summary 444
Chapter 21 Environmental Policy in Poor Countries 448
21.0 Introduction 448
21.1 The Political Economy of Sustainable Development 449
21.2 Ending Environmentally Damaging Subsidies 451
21.3 Establishing and Enforcing Property Rights 453
21.4 Regulatory Approaches 456
21.5 Sustainable Technology: Development and Transfer 461
21.6 Resource Conservation and Debt Relief 464
21.7 Trade and the Environment 469
21.8 Summary 474
Chapter 22 The Economics of Global Agreements 480
22.0 Introduction 480
22.1 Agreements as Public Goods 481
22.2 Monitoring and Enforcement 482
22.3 The Ozone Layer and Biodiversity 484
22.4 Stopping Global Warnung: Theory 489
22.5 Stopping Global Warming: Reality 493
22.6 Summary 495
Selected Web Sites 500
Author Index 503
Subject Index 506
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