Environmental Economics or Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy

Environmental Economics

Author: Barry C Field

Barry Field's Environmental Economics, 3e, examines all the facets of the connection between environmental quality and the economic behavior of individuals and groups of people. The book contains 21 chapters covering Cost and Benefits of Environmental Policy, Environmental Analysis, Policy Analysis, US Policy (Air Pollution, Toxic Wastes, State and Local Issues), and International Environmental Issues. Barry Field's other text with McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Natural Resource Economics (©2001), may be packaged with Environmental Economics, 3e, at a discount.

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For readers with no background in the field, presents the major principles of economics in a commonsense but rigorous manner and provides some examples of how they have been applied to issues of environmental quality. The topics include analytical tools, environmental and policy analysis, and international issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Sect. 1	Introduction	1
1	What Is Environmental Economics?	3
2	The Economy and the Environment	23
Sect. 2	Analytical Tools	43
3	Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand	45
4	Economic Efficiency and Markets	66
5	The Economics of Environmental Quality	86
Sect. 3	Environmental Analysis	111
6	Frameworks of Analysis	113
7	Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits	137
8	Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs	160
Sect. 4	Environmental Policy Analysis	181
9	Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies	183
10	Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action	194
11	Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards	212
12	Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies	233
13	Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits	257
Sect. 5	Environmental Policy in the United States	273
14	Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy	275
15	Federal Air Pollution-Control Policy	303
16	Federal Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances	332
17	State and Local Environmental Issues	363
Sect. 6	International Environmental Issues	389
18	Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries	391
19	Economic Development and the Environment	412
20	The Global Environment	436
21	International Environmental Agreements	462
	App: Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Book	483
	Name Index	485
	Subject Index	493

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Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy

Author: Dean Baker

In Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy, thirty-six prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on our national sovereignty and standards of living. Does globalization cause inequality? Instability? Unemployment? Environmenal degradation? Or is it an engine of prosperity and wealth for the vast majority of the world's citizens? The authors analyze problems, institutions and possible government responses, and conclude that globalization can be a force for good or ill depending on the degree of regulation that governments and citizens can exercise over its trajectory.

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Here is a book that will force you to reconsider much of what you think you know about policy in a globalized economy.