Research Catalog

Title

Public economics and the environment in an imperfect world / edited by Lans Bovenberg and Sijbren Cnossen.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Bovenberg, Ary Lans.
• Cnossen, Sijbren.

Description

xi, 374 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environment resources are finite. The issues of global warming and depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and regional pollution problems. This book examines the interface between public economics and environmental economics.
• What is evident is that Coasian negotiations fail to internalize the costs of environmental degradation often calling for public intervention through the market mechanism. This book considers these issues and includes contributions on assessment problems, institutional aspects, the need for coordination and efficiency and distribution issues.

Series Statement

Natural resource management and policy

Uniform Title

Natural resource management and policy.

Subject

• Environmental impact charges
• Pollution > Taxation
• Environmental policy > Economic aspects
• Environmental protection > International cooperation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World: An Introductory Summary / Lans Bovenberg and Sijbren Cnossen -- 2. Public Finance and the Environment / Agnar Sandmo -- 3. The Political Economy of Implementing Environmental Taxes / Mark Pearson -- 4. Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods: Towards Efficient Pollution Control with Presumptive Charges / Gunnar S. Eskeland and Shantayanan Devarajan -- 5. Global Climate Change, Energy Subsidies and National Carbon Taxes / Bjorn Larsen and Anwar Shah -- 6. How a Fee Per-unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households / Thomas C. Kinnaman and Don Fullerton -- 7. Environmental Taxes on Intermediate and Final Goods When Both Can be Imported / James M. Poterba and Julio J. Rotemberg -- 8. Are Incentive Instruments as Good as Economists Believe? Some New Considerations / Hannelore Weck-Hannemann and Bruno S. Frey --
• 9. The Political Economy of the Environment in Developing Countries: Market Failure and Institutional Response / Eduardo Wiesner -- 10. Pollution Taxes as a Source of Budgetary Revenues in Economies in Transition / Tomasz Zylicz -- 11. The Role of the European Union in Environmental Taxation / Stephen Smith -- 12. Pure Global Externalities: International Efficiency and Equity / Peggy B. Musgrave -- 13. International Coordination of Environmental Policies and Stability of Global Environmental Agreements / Carlo Carraro and Domenico Siniscalco -- 14. Environmental Taxation and the "Double Dividend:" A Reader's Guide / Lawrence H. Goulder -- 15. Energy Levies and Endogenous Technology in an Empirical Simulation Model for the Netherlands / Frank den Butter, Rob Dellink and Marjan Hofkes -- 16. Welfare and the Environment: Implications of a Recent Tax Reform in Norway / Haakon Vennemo.

ISBN

0792396189 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

95031616

OCLC

• 32819958
• ocm32819958

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries