This paper models the use of community sanctions to restrict effort in a simple Gordon-Shaefer style model of the fishery with heterogeneous fishing costs.

This paper explores conflicts between two groups, "the industry" and "the environmentalists", over whether an indivisible resource (e.g., an ancient tree) should be harvested or preserved. The problem is first analysed as a complete information "war of attrition". Under the "rationalizability",...

Assessment of trends in Canadian living standards is incomplete if family money incomes are not adjusted for the shrinking size of Canadian families. This paper uses OECD and Statistics Canada equivalence scales to examine the level and distribution of equivalent money income in 1975, 1981,1984,...

This paper presents a dynamic model of forestry in which the planner chooses the rates of harvest and planting at each instant. The use of a forest-level analysis in which the area of each cohort is monitored and in which the rates (rather than frequencies) of harvest and planting are chosen...