Economics, environmental policy, and the quality of life /
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Enlgewood Cliffs, N. J. :
Prentice-Hall,
1979
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Table of Contents:
- 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.