Research Catalog

Title

Economics of the environment : selected readings / edited by Robert Dorfman and Nancy S. Dorfman.

Publication

New York : Norton, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dorfman, Robert
• Dorfman, Nancy S.

Description

x, 517 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Almost two-thirds of the 30 papers (all previously published are new to this third edition (previous eds.: 1972 & 1977), reflecting shifts in the focus of the field, in particular toward problems of the global environment; the ten papers carried over have withstood the test of time. Access to such source material is invaluable as the voices of the.

Subject

• Pollution > Economic aspects
• Environmental policy > Costs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- The economic common sense of pollution / Larry E. Ruff -- Analysis of environmental pollution / Allen V. Kneese -- EPA and the evolution of federal regulation / Paul R. Portney -- Some concepts from welfare economics / Robert Dorfman -- The economic theory of a common-property resource : the fishery / H. Scott Gordon -- The problem of social cost / Ronald Coase -- On divergences between social cost and private cost / Ralph Turvey -- The problem of market failure / Alan Randall -- The economics of resources or the resources of economics / Robert M. Solow -- Sustainability : an economist's perspective / Robert M. Solow -- Conservation reconsidered / John V. Krutilla -- Regulatory strategies for pollution control / A. Michael Spence, Martin L. Weitzman -- Land, water, and ownership / J.H. Dales -- Transferable discharge permits and the control of stationary source air pollution / Thomas H. Tietenberg -- Economic incentives in the management of hazardous wastes / Clifford S. Russell -- Weighing alternatives for toxic waste cleanup / Peter Passell -- An introduction to benefit-cost analysis / Robert Dorfman -- Criteria for social investment / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Comparisons of methods for recreation evaluation / Jack L. Knetsch, Robert K. Davis -- Bidding games for valuation of aesthetic environmental improvements / Alan Randall, Berry Ives, Clyde Eastman -- The economic value of life : linking theory to practice / J. Steven Landefeld, Eugene P. Seskin -- The life you save may be your own / Thomas C. Schelling -- Risk assessment and comparisons : an introduction / Richard Wilson, E.A.C. Crouch -- Controlling urban air pollution : a benefit-cost assessment / Alan J. Krupnick, Paul R. Portney -- International cooperation for environmental protection / Scott Barrett -- Some economics of global warming / Thomas C. Schelling -- Economic activity and the greenhouse effect / Yoshiki Ogawa -- Adverse environmental consequences of the green revolution / David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel -- Deforestation and species loss / Kenton R. Miller, Walter V. Reid, Charles V. Barber.

ISBN

0393963101 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^92017707^

OCLC

• 25915372
• SCSB-11357420

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library