The Economics of Environmental regulation (Economists of the Twentieth Century series) - Hardcover

Oates, Wallace E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852787430 ISBN 13: 9781852787431

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of 22 papers published over the past 25 years by Oates (economics, U. of Maryland) on the theory, application, and policy of environmental economics. They cover economic instruments for environmental regulation, taxes and fees for environmental management, the design of systems of tradeable emissions permits, environmental federalism, and open economy environmental economics. Oates introduces the collection with a discussion of the changes in environmental regulation and enforcement since the 1960s and the importance of market approaches in making policy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Wallace E. Oates is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.

Review:

`The Economics of Environmental Regulation is an excellent book . . . provides the reader with copies of some of the most important papers in the field. Wallace Oates writes well and there is great scope to his interests (his flexibility as an economist is witnessed by the fact that an earlier volume in the Great Economists series collects his pioneering contributions in the field of local government finance). Everything he writes is underpinned by firm theoretical rigour.' -- Anthony Heyes, The Journal of Energy Literature `Most of the papers are written in a non-technical and straightforward manner and the collection would make an excellent background reader for courses on the analysis of pollution.' -- Rosemary Clarke, The Economic Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1852787430
• ISBN 13: 9781852787431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480