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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Jonathan M. Harris, Tufts University
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Chapter 3: The Theory of Environmental Externalities
- What are environmental externalities and how can externalities be externalized?
- How can subsidies and taxes be used to increase economic efficiency?
- What is the difference between a private optimum and a social optimum?
- What is welfare analysis? How is efficiency represented graphically?
- What do we mean by "optimal" pollution? Why shouldn’t pollution levels be zero?
- What is a Pigouvian tax? How does it relate to the issue of property rights?
- What is the Coase theorem? What are some of the limitations of the theory?
- What are transactions costs? How do transactions costs relate to efficiency?
- Does the assignment of property rights affect equity?
- What are the free rider and holdout effects?
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