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In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
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Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
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The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...
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The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates
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The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
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1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government …
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Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Tam Robert Nguyen (eds), Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice, Chapter 1, Washington, DC …, Real Tax Revenue, and the Case for Inflationary Finance: Theory with an Application to Argentina', International Monetary … The Theory of Incentives: The Principal- Agent Model, Chapter 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 7 …
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In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the … contribute and draws conclusions on how the empirical findings influence economic theory and policy. Academic economists …
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This multidisciplinary work explores ways of making environmental policy decisions in managing public goods and natural parks with the goal of maximizing economic benefits to society. The contributors to the volume seek the best strategies for improving the environmental sustainability and...
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