Econ 4545: Environmental Economics
Lecture notes available online:
Introductory section
Some brief
notes on extinction
Notes on Materials Balance , E.R. Morey
Why a course
in environmental economics?
Equity
and efficiency defined and considered
An introduction
to market failures
A student
asked me how efficiency and social welfare relate to Benefit Cost analysis
The Ethicist: A Dog's Death, Randy Cohen, NYT September 25, 2005
Non-market valuation
A
start on nonmarket valuation: value and consumer's surplus
Defining the
comensating and equivalent variations
How can consumer's
surplus measures be used to evaluate policies?
The difference
between the CV and the EV - this is more advanced material
A brief introduction to travel-cost modeling: Coeur d'Alene
Mountain Biking:
Choice Experiments
Hedonics: An introduction
to using variations in prices to value environmental amenities
Mobile-source pollution
An introduction to mobile-source pollution -rough drafts
Two reasons to increase the tax on oil: Pigou's reason and OPEC, -rough draft
Congestion and Static Common-property resources
Congestion and road tolls: Pigou's narrow road to Breck
Should I-70 west of Denver be a toll road?
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