An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy: Issues in Institutional Design (Research in Law and Economics)

Hardcover, xi + 540 pages, NOT ex-library. Weight 950g. Clean, untanned interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Faint dusty marks on outer page edges externally. Boards show sunning to the spine and edges, a couple of shallow indentations on the front panel, moderate handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The book emphasises the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems. Three important issues concerning institutional design are: policies, instruments, and enforcement. This volume surveys each of the issues, and emphasises the common themes arising in optimal institutional design. These themes include the cost of complex institutional design, and the role of private institutions attaining social objects. This book will be particularly useful to law schools, departments of government, policy or economics, environmental managers and insurance companies. -- Contents: Preface / Richard O. Zerbe; An Introduction to the Law & Economics of Environmental Policy: Issues in Institutional Design / Timothy Swanson; Comments / Richard O. Zerbe; Can Law & Economics Stand the Purchase of Moral Satisfaction? / Richard O. Zerbe; Comments / Andreas Kontoleon; Individual Preference-Based Values & Environmental Decision Making: Should Valuation Have Its Day in Court? / Andreas Kontoleon, Richard Macrory, Timothy Swanson; Comments / Richard B. Stewart; Toward a Total-cost Approach to Environmental Instrument Choice / Daniel H. Cole, Peter Z. Grossman; Comments / Anthony Ogus; Choice of Instruments for Environmental Policy: Liability or Regulation? / Marcel Boyer, Donatella Porrini; Comments / Michael Faure; The Aarhus Convention & the Politics of Process: Political Economy of Procedural Environmental Rights / Susan Rose-Ackerman, Achim A. Halpaap; Environmental Damage Insurance in Theory & Practice / Michael Faure; Comments / James Boyd; The Design of Marketable Permit Schemes to Control Local & Regional Pollutants / Jonathan Remy Nash, Richard L. Revesz; Comments / Daniel H. Cole; Monitoring for Latent Liabilities: When Is It Necessary & Who Should Do It? / Timothy Swanson, Robin Mason; Comments / Anthony Heyes; Financial Responsibility for Environmental Obligations: Are Bonding & Assurance Rules Fulfilling Their Promise? / James Boyd; Comments / Donatella Porrini; Pollution & Penalties / Anthony Ogus, Carolyn Abbot; Comment / Richard L. Revesz; Eight Things About Enforcement That Seem Obvious but May Not Be / Anthony G. Heyes; Comment / Timothy Swanson; Comments / Farhana Yamin; Environmental Regulatory Decision Making Under Uncertainty / Richard B. Stewart.