【资料名称】:Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics
【资料作者】:Chennat Gopalakrishnan
【出版社】: Palgrave USA
【简介及目录】:
Product details
- Hardcover: 362 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave USA (4 April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312230141
Synopsis
Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economicsbrings together a choice selection of some of the most enduringacademic writing published in this field in a single volume. Thefourteenpapers included in this book are grouped into five sections:theintertemporal problem; externalities and market failure;propertyrights; institutions and public choice; the economics ofexhaustibleresources; and the economics of renewable resources. Eachsectionrepresents a major area in natural resource economics.
This volume is a compact source book of well-known and highlyregardedpapers dealing with the theory and practice of naturalresourceeconomics. The chapters span many facets of the discipline andgive thereader informed insights into the complex issues involved inresourceproduction, pricing, consumption and allocation. Writtenbydistinguished resource economists, the papers in this volumeprobe,analyze and illuminate the central issues of the discipline. Thevolumeis directed largely at an academic audience; specifically, itisintended as a supplementary textbook for a graduate course innaturalresource economics. Also, it would be very useful toresearchers,policy analysts and others with a good grounding ineconomic theory andsome knowledge of quantitative methods.
Biography
Chennat Gopalakrishnan is Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Contributors xi
Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics: 1
An Overview
Chennat Gopalakrishnan
I The Intertemporal Problem 11
1 The Social Time Preference Discount Rate in Cost
Benefit Analysis 13
Martin S. Feldstein
2 On the Social Rate of Discount 37
William F. Baumol
3 Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment
Decisions 54
Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert C. Lind
4 Environment Preservation, Uncertainty, and
Irreversibility 76
Kenneth J. Arrow and Anthony C. Fisher
II Externalities and Market Failure 85
5 The Problem of Social Cost 87
Ronald H. Coase
6 Externality 138
James M. Buchanan and William C. Stubblebine
7 On Divergences between Social Cost and Private
Cost 155
Ralph Turvey
III Property Rights, Institutions and Public Choice 161
8 Toward a Theory of Property Rights 163
Harold Demsetz
9 The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource:
The Fishery 178
H. Scott Gordon
10 Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins 204
James M. Buchanan
IV The Economics of Exhaustible Resources 219
11 The Economics of Exhaustible Resources 221
Harold Hotelling
12 The Economics of Resources or the Resources of
Economics 257
Robert M. Solow
V The Economics of Renewable Resources 277
13 Economics of Production from Natural Resources 279
Vernon L. Smith
14 Economics of Forestry in an Evolving Society 304
Paul A. Samuelson
Further Readings 334
Author Index 339
Subject Index 342