Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment

by Richard L. Stroup

Overview

It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws are ineffective and others have had unintended consequences. In this updated edition, Richard Stroup explains how economics applies to environmental decisionmaking, why many of our environmental laws have failed us, and how we might go about doing a better job of protecting nature. Eco-nomics is an indispensable guide to learning how to think about both economics and the environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944424015
Publisher:	Cato Institute
Publication date:	08/09/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	116
File size:	683 KB

About the Author

Richard L. Stroup is an emeritus economics professor at Montana State University and North Carolina State University. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a senior fellow emeritus at Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
1.	Scarcity: An Economics Primer	1
2.	Rights: How Property Rights and Markets Replace Conflict with Cooperation	17
3.	Coercion: Protecting the Environment With Government Action	39
4.	Choosing: Economics and Environmental Policy Choices	65
	Index	87