Economics and environmental policy / T.H. Tietenberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Controlling Pollution by Price and Standard Systems: A General Equilibrium Analysis -- 3. Specific Taxes and the Control of Pollution: A General Equilibrium Analysis -- 4. Derived Decision Rules for Pollution Control in a General Equilibrium Space Economy -- 5. Spatially Differentiated Air Pollutant Emission Charges: An Economic and Legal Analysis -- 6. Transferable Discharge Permits and the Control of Stationary Source Air Pollution: A Survey and Synthesis -- 7. The Empirical Properties of Two Classes of Designs for Transferable Discharge Permit Markets / Thomas H. Tietenberg and Scott E. Atkinson -- 8. Approaches for Reaching Ambient Standards in Non-Attainment Areas: Financial Burden and Efficiency Considerations / Thomas H. Tietenberg and Scott E. Atkinson -- 9. Economic Implications of Emissions Trading Rules for Local and Regional Pollutants / Thomas H. Tietenberg and S. E. Atkinson.

10. Market Failure in Incentive-Based Regulation: The Case of Emissions Trading / Thomas H. Tietenberg and Scott Atkinson -- 11. Uncommon Sense: The Program to Reform Pollution Control Policy -- 12. Economic Instruments for Environmental Regulation -- 13. Indivisible Toxic Torts: The Economics of Joint and Several Liability -- 14. The Structure of Penalties in Environmental Enforcement: An Economic Analysis / Thomas H. Tietenberg and Kathleen Segerson -- 15. Private Enforcement of Federal Environmental Law / Thomas H. Tietenberg and Wendy Naysnerski -- 16. The Poverty Connection to Environmental Policy -- 17. Managing the Transition: The Potential Role for Economic Policies -- 18. Substitution Bias in a Depletable Resource Model with Administered Prices -- 19. An International System of Tradeable CO[subscript 2] Entitlements: Implications for Economic Development / Thomas H. Tietenberg and Adam Rose.