Public Economics and the Quality of Life

ISBN-13: 9781617260766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 357 str.

Lowdon Wingo

Opis

'The Resources for the Future Library Collection' brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as the pre-eminent research institution devoted exclusively to environmental issues.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction, 1. Objective, Subjective, and Collective Dimensions of the Quality of Life, 2. Variations in the Quality of Urban Life Among Cities and Regions, 3. The Urban Disamenity Revisited, 4. Problems of Measuring the Quality of City Environments, 5. Local Government, the Property Tax, and the Quality of Life: Some Findings on Progressivity, 6. Justifiable Government Intervention in Preserving the Quality of Life, 7. The Quality of Life and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis, 8. Property Values and the Benefits of Environmental Improvements: Theory and Measurement, 9. Estimating Access Values, 10. Neighborhood Externalities, Economic Clubs, and the Environment, 11. The Treatment of Externalities in National Income Statistics, 12. Conceptions of the Quality of Life in Theory and Practice, 13. Toward a New Civic Calculus, 14. Measuring the Quality of Life of the Elderly, 15. Reflections on the Quality of Working Life

O autorze

Wingo Jr., Lowdon; Evans, Alan