Philip E. Graves

Environmental Economics

A Critique of Benefit-Cost Analysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental Economics: A Critique of Benefit-Cost Analysis describes, in a non-technical, readily understandable way, why the practice of benefit-cost analysis in environmental settings is heavily biased against the environment. The book provides environmentalists with the tools necessary to show policy-makers that pursuing many policies with apparent costs greater than benefits are, in fact, welfare-enhancing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780742546998
• ISBN-10: 0742546993
• Artikelnr.: 22583843

Autorenporträt

Philip E. Graves is professor of economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been teaching environmental economics for thirty years and is the co-author of The Economics of Environmental Quality (Norton, 1986) and Intermediate Microeconomics (Harcourt, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Economics Background-Why Economists Like Benefit-Cost
Analysis
Chapter 2 1 Introductory Matters of Logic and Philosophy
Chapter 3 2 Why Economists Like Market Outcomes for Ordinary Goods
Chapter 4 3 Benefit-Cost Analysis when Information Is "Perfect": The Role
of Time in Environmental Economic Decisions
Part 5 Part II: "Missing Markets": Externalities, Public Goods, and
Property Rights
Chapter 6 4 Externalities as "Missing Markets"
Chapter 7 5 Public Goods as "Missing Markets"
Chapter 8 6 Property Rights as a Potential Solution to Environmental
Problems
Part 9 Part III: Important Theoretical Problems with Implementing
Benefit-Cost Analysis
Chapter 10 7 The Well-Known "Demand Revelation" Problem Out of a Given
Income
Chapter 11 8 A Less-Well-Known "Supply Revelation" Problem
Part 12 Part IV: Practical Problems with the Implementation of Benefit-Cost
Analysis
Chapter 13 9 Approaches to Estimating the Costs of Environmental Control
Policies
Chapter 14 10 Overview of Approaches to the Valuation of Benefits of
Environmental Policies
Chapter 15 11 Voting as a Way to Infer Environmental Benefits
Chapter 16 12 Constructed Markets: Stated Preferences and Experiments to
Infer Environmental Benefits
Chapter 17 13 The Sum of Specific Damages Approach
Chapter 18 14 Hedonic Methods of Valuing Environmental Amenities
Chapter 19 15 Travel Cost Method of Valuing Environmental Amenities
Chapter 20 16 Political and Jurisdictional Problems
Part 21 Epilogue