The Economic Theory and Measurement of Environmental Benefits
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 2012Adobe eBook Reader
9781139239912
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39 b/w illus. 3 tables
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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.