Economics, environmental policy, and the quality of life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baumol, William J., 1922-2017
Other Authors: Oates, Wallace E., 1937-2015
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Enlgewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, 1979
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction: Economics and the quality of life -- Pte. 1. A perspective on environmental problems: 2. Trends in environnmental quality -- 3. The risks of a deteriorating environment -- 4. The mechanism of environmental damage in a free enterprise economy -- 5. Pollution problems in the planned economies -- 6. Are we running out of resources? -- 7. Conservation of resources and the price system -- 8. The tyranny of compounding -- 9. On limits to growth -- Pte. 2. Critical policy issues for the quality of life: 10. The provision of urban services -- 11. land use, urban blight, and the deterioration of city life -- 12. Who pays and who benefits? -- 13. International environmental policy -- Pte. 3. The design of environmental policy: 14. Perfectionism and priorities in environmental policy -- 15. The range of policy instruments -- 16. Direct controls versus the pricing system -- 17. Princing techniques: charges, subsidies, sale of permits, and refundable deposits -- 18. Experience with price incentives for environmental protection -- 19. Moral suasion: uses and abuses -- 20. The role for direct controls -- 21. Current environmental policy: a reliance on direct controls -- 22. Designing effective environmental policy -- 23. Epilogue. 
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