Readings to Accompany Kolstad: Environmental Economics
NB: Many of these articles are available on Lexis-Nexis. The procedure for reading them is a little convoluted. First, you should be at a UCSB.EDU domain. When you click on a title from the Economist or New York Times, you will get an error message saying you cannot bookmark answer sets. Click on "Return to Search" and then on that page, choose "Search" and then you will have the article or several, including the correct one, which you should click on. Sorry for the convoluted procedure but this is how Lexis-Nexis sets it up.
1. Larry Ruff: "Economic Common Sense of Pollution," The Public Interest, #19, pp69-85 (Spring 1970). [Ch 2]
2. Michael Toman and R. David Simpson, "Environmental Policies, Economic Restructuring and Institutional Development in the Former Soviet Union," Ch 40 in W. E. Oates (ed), The RFF Reader (Resources for the Future, Washington, DC 1999). [Ch 2]
3. Timothy Brennan, "Discounting the Future: Economics and Ethics," Ch 6 in Oates (op cit.). [Ch 3]
4. Steven Kelman, "Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique" and reply by Butters et al, pp129-137 in Glickman and Gough (Eds), Readings in Risk (RfF, Washington, DC, 1990) [Ch 3]
5. "What Price Posterity," Economist, March 23, 1991 [Ch 4]
6. "Creating Incentives," Economist, May 29, 1993. [Ch 4]
7. Peter Passell, "Economists Point To Values Beyond Price," New York Times, June 2, 1998. [Ch 5].
8. "Feedlot Price: $1.82/month," Santa Maria Times, June 28, 1996 [Ch 6]
9. "Taxes for a greener planet," Economist, June 28, 1997 [Ch 7]
10. "Clean and Green, or Lean and Mean?," Economist, Dec. 12, 1992. [Ch 7]
11. Peter Passell, "Private Incentives as Pollution Curb," New York Times, Oct. 19, 1988. [Ch 8]
13. Peter Passell, "The EPA's Tough Standards: Cost Isn't a Consideration," New York Times, Nov. 28, 1996. [Ch 8]
14. Rae Tyson, "Auction Floats Air Pollution into the Market," USA Today, March 30, 1993 [Ch 9]
15. Richard W. Stevenson, "Trying a Market Approach to Smog," New York Times, March 25, 1992 [Ch 9]
16. Michael J. Sandel, "It's Immoral to Buy the Right to Pollute," New York Times, Dec 15, 1997. [Ch 9]
17. Billy Pizer, "Choosing Price or Quantity Controls for Greenhouse Gases," RfF Policy Brief #17 (July 1999). [Ch 10]
18. Clifford Russell, "Economic Incentives in the Management of Hazardous Wastes," Columbia J. Env. Law, 13:257-74 (1988). Reprinted in Dorfman and Dorfman [Ch 11]
19. A. Myrick Freeman III and Paul R. Portney, "Economics Clarifies Choices about Managing Risk," Ch 3 in Oates (op cit). [Ch 12]
20. Peter Passell, "Experts Question Staggering Costs of Toxic Cleanups," New York Times, Sept. 1, 1991. [Ch 12]
21. "Dirt Poor," Economist, March 21, 1998. [Ch 13]
22. "Mexico: More Muck than Money," Economist, Oct. 16, 1993 [Ch 13]
23. David E. Sanger, "Trade Group Orders U.S. To Alter Law For First Time," New York Times, Jan. 18, 1996. [Ch 13]
24. Jagdish Bhagwati and Herman Daly, "Debate: Does Free Trade Harm the Environment?," Scientific American, pp 41-57 (Nov. 1993). [Ch 13]
25. "An Invaluable Environment," Economist, April 18, 1998 [Ch 14]
27. David Gardiner and Paul Portney, "Does Environmental Policy Conflict with Economic Growth?," Ch 4 in Oates (op cit.) [Ch 14]
29. Peter Passell, "How Much is the Environment Worth? A Step Toward Answers," New York Times, March 27, 1997. [Ch 15]
30. "Treasuring the Environment," Economist, March 3, 1990. [Ch 15]
31. "A Price on the Priceless?," Economist, Aug. 17, 1991. [Ch 15]
32. George L. van Houtven and Maureen Cropper, "When is a Life Too Costly to Save? The Evidence from Environmental Regulations," Ch 7 in Oates (op cit) [Ch 16]
33. "The Price of Imagining Arden," Economist, Dec. 3, 1994. [Ch 18]
October 12, 1999