Price, Principle, and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780521837231 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 294 str.

Mark Sagoff

Opis

Demonstrating the contribution of economics to environmental policy, Mark Sagoff argues that economics is helpful in designing institutions and processes through which people can settle environmental disputes. However, Sagoff also reveals that economic analysis fails completely when it attempts to attach value to environmental goods. He concludes that environmental policy responds to principles best identified and applied through political processes in this work geared to environmentalists as well as philosophers.

Recenzje

'Sagoff writes well and the book is full of interesting anecdotes and case studies … There is much of interest in this book …' Economics and Philosophy

Spis treści

1. Zuckerman's dilemma: an introduction; 2. At the monument to General Meade; 3. Should preferences count?; 4. Value in use and in exchange; 5. The philosophical common sense of pollution; 6. On the value of wild ecosystems; 7. Carrying capacity and ecological economics; 8. Cows are better than condos; 9. The view from Quincy library.