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The Economic Theory and Measurement of Environmental Benefits

The Economic Theory and Measurement of Environmental Benefits

The Economic Theory and Measurement of Environmental Benefits

Per-Olov Johansson
November 1987
Replaced By 9780521348102
Hardback
9780521328777

    This book is an advanced text in welfare economics and its application to environmental economics. It provides, in the first chapters, a comprehensive survey of developments in the theory of measurement of welfare, and then applies this theory to environmental economics.
    The first part derives consumer surplus measures to be used in a timeless world, and the second part looks at international issues.

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    May 2012
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781139239912
    0 pages
    0kg
    39 b/w illus. 3 tables
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Some basic concepts
    • 3. The concept of consumer surplus
    • 4. Topics in the theory of consumer surplus measures
    • 5. Consumer surplus measures in quantity-constrained regimes
    • 6. Public goods and externalities in consumption
    • 7. How to overcome the problem of preference revelation
    • practical methodologies
    • 8. Discreet choice models and environmental benefits
    • 9. Consumer's surplus in an intertemporal context
    • 10. Welfare change measures in a risky world
    • 11. Money measures of the total value of environmental aspects
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
      Author
    • Per-Olov Johansson