This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design of policy instruments. Moreover, detailed...

1. Introduction -- 2. Biophysical Context of the Economy -- 3. Simple Physical Model of Nature and Economy -- 4. Subsystem Model of the Economy -- 5. Rationale for an Economics of a Crowded Planet -- 6. Economic Orthodoxy and Emerging Pluralism -- 7. The Economics of Nature -- 8. Conventional...

Introduction: Economics and Environmental Degradation -- Environmental Externalities and Their Internationalization Through Voluntary Approaches -- Monetary Valuation of the Environment -- A Comparison of Environmental Policy Instruments -- International Environmental Problems

Chapter 1 Background to the research -- Chapter 2 The sustainability discourse -- Chapter 3 Prisoners’ Dilemma: a method for analysis -- Chapter 4 Developing the theory -- Chapter 5 Distribution: testing and evaluation -- Chapter 6 Implications for the future -- Chapter 7 Conclusions.

Part I. State of the Art -- 1. An Overview of Green Finance -- 2. Defining Green Finance: Existing Standards and Main Challenges -- 3. The Development of Green Finance by Sector -- 4. Sustainable Finance Management -- 5. Financial Performances of Green Securities -- 6. Institutional Initiatives...

1. The Origin and Connotation of Green Development -- 2. Make Full Use of the Experience of International Green Development -- 3. The Pressure of Green Transformation and Development -- 4. The Driving Force of Green Transformation and Development -- 5. The Resistance of Green Transformation and...

Die Grundannahmen und Theorien der Ökonomie seit Adam Smith und Karl Marx scheinen heutzutage (mehr als) überholt. Dieses Buch eröffnet Lesenden eine neue, ganzheitliche Perspektive auf ökonomische, soziale und politische Fragestellungen. Mit Hilfe eines verhaltenstheoretischen Ansatzes und...

1. Is Transaction Cost Economics Behavioral? -- 2. Clarifying Key Terms and Philosophical Foundations of Transaction Cost Economics -- 3. Opportunism and Bounded Rationality in Transaction Cost Economics: Values, Attitudes, or Behaviors? -- 4. Modeling Bounded Rationality: Mediation or...