Title:
Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates
Author:
Portney, Paul R.
ISBN:
9781858986111
Publication Information:
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c1999.
Physical Description:
xxviii,342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Pt. I. Environmental economics. 1. On environmental policy for a conservative era / William J. Baumol. 2. Environmental federalism: welfare losses from uniform national drinking water standards / Terry M. Dinan, Maureen L. Cropper and Paul R. Portney. 3. The case for a two-part instrument: presumptive tax and environmental subsidy / Don Fullerton and Ann Wolverton. 4. Tax-interactions, revenue-recycling, and the efficiency impacts of pollution-abatement policies / Lawrence H. Goulder. 5. The positive political economy of instrument choice in environmental policy / Nathaniel O. Keohane, Richard L. Revesz and Robert N. Stavins. 6. Does nature limit environmental federalism? / V. Kerry Smith, Kurt A. Schwabe and Carol Mansfield -- Pt. II. Public Economics. 7. Modeling urban growth controls / Jan K. Brueckner. 8. Congestion and taxation in lumpy countries / David L. Hummels, Paul N. Courant and Alan V. Deardorff.
9. The effects of educational vouchers when schools track students by ability / Dennis Epple, Elizabeth Newlon and Richard E. Romano. 10. On designing intergovernmental transfers with an application in the new South Africa / Robert P. Inman. 11. Public pensions in the EU: migration incentives and impacts / David E. Wildasin. 12. Early American federalism and economic development, 1790-1840 / John Joseph Wallis. 13. Capitalization and efficiency / John Yinger -- Wallace E. Oates: published books and papers.
Abstract:
Wallace E. Oates has made a pioneering contribution to environmental and public economics. This original selection of essays honors his seminal work in both these fields. Environmental and Public Economics is an informative and thought-provoking celebration of Wallace E. Oates's work which will be useful for students and scholars of environmental studies, public policy and public sector economics.
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