Handouts (draft book
chapters below)
BOOK (Benefit-Cost Analysis
for Environmentalists: How to Play Within the "Rules of the Game" and
Win!)
- Table
of Contents
- Part
I, Chapter 1. Economics Background--Why Economists Like
Benefit-Cost Analysis
- Part
I, Chapter 2. Why Economists Like Market Outcomes for Ordinary
Goods
- Part
I, Chapter 3. Benefit-Cost Analysis When Information is
"Perfect": The Role of Time
- Part
II, Chapter 4. Externalities as "Missing Markets"
- Part
II, Chapter 5. Public Goods as "Missing Markets"
- Part
II, Chapter 6. Property Rights as a Potential Solution to
Environmental Problems
- Part
III, Chapter 7. The Well-Known "Demand Revelation" Problem Out of
a Given Income
- Part
III, Chapter 8. A Less Well-Known "Supply Revelation" Problem
- Part
IV, Chapter 9. Approaches to Estimating the Costs of
Environmental Control Policies
- Part
IV, Chapter 10. Overview of Approaches to Estimating Benefits of
Environmental Policies
- Part
IV, Chapter 11. Voting as a Way to Infer Environmental Benefits
- Part
IV, Chapter 12. Constructed Markets: Stated Preferences and
Experiments to Infer Environmental Benefits
- Part
IV, Chapter 13. The Sum of Specific Damages Approach
- Part
IV, Chapter 14. Hedonic Methods of Evaluating Environmental
Amenities
- Part
IV, Chapter 15. The Travel Cost Method of Evaluating
Environmental Amenities
- Part
IV, Chapter 16. Political and Jurisdictional Problems
- Part
V, Epilog