Chapter 1 Four Economic Questions about Global Warming

PART I: HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS TOO MUCH?

Chapter 2 Ethics and Economics

Chapter 3 Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities

Chapter 4 The Efficiency Standard

Chapter 5 The Safety Standard

Chapter 6 Sustainability: A Neoclassical View

Chapter 7 Sustainability: An Ecological View

Chapter 8 Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection

Chapter 9 Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection

Chapter 10 Benefit–Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard

Chapter 11 Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare

PART II: IS GOVERNMENT UP TO THE JOB?

Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation

Chapter 13 An Overview of Environmental Legislation

Chapter 14 The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles

Chapter 15 Monitoring and Enforcement

PART III: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?

Chapter 16 Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory

Chapter 17 Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice

Chapter 18 Promoting Clean Technology: Theory

Chapter 19 Energy Policy and the Environment

PART IV: CAN WE RESOLVE GLOBAL ISSUES?

Chapter 20 Poverty, Population, and the Environment

Chapter 21 Environmental Policy in Poor Countries

Chapter 22 The Economics of Global Agreements

Author Index