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040			_cCUS
082			_a338.927 _bBAU/T
100			_aBaumol, William J. _920388
245		4	_aThe theory of environmental policy/ _cWilliam J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aCambridge: _bCambridge University Press, _c1998.
300			_ax, 299 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_a1. Introduction: economic and environmental policy Part I. On The Theory of Externalities 2. Relevance and the theory of externalities 3. Externalities: definition, significant types, and optimal-pricing conditions 4. Externalities: formal analysis 5. Uncertainty and the choice of policy instruments: price or quantity controls? 6. Market imperfections and the number of participants 7. Are competitive outputs with detrimental externalities necessarily excessive? 8. Detrimental externalities and nonconvexities in the production set 9. On optimal pricing of exhaustible resources Part II. On The Design of Environmental Policy 10. Introduction to Part II 11. Efficiency without optimality: the charges and standards approach 12. Marketable emission permits for protection of the environment 13. Stochastic influences, direct controls, and taxes 14. Taxes versus subsidies: a partial analysis 15. Environmental protection and the distribution of income 16. International environmental issues 17. national or local standards for environmental quality?
650			_aEnvironmental Policy
650			_aExternalities (Economics) _927267
650			_aQuality of life
700			_aOates, Wallace E. _927268
942			_cWB16 _03