Economy and Environment: A Theoretical Essay on the Interdependence of Economic and Environmental Systems

by Charles Perrings

Overview

Environmental external effects are evidence of the inability of market prices to reflect the interdependence of economic activities undertaken within a common environment, and are an essential feature of all market economies. This book shows how external effects are produced by the interaction of the economy with its environment, using a classical mass-balance model.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521340816
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/25/1987
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Notation guide; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Physical Economy-Environment System: 2. Closed physical systems: a model; 3. Structure and time in the physical system; 4. Technological change and the environmental constraints to physical growth; Part II. The Economic System: 5. The price system; 6. Prices, property, and the environment; 7. Economic conflict and environmental change; Part III. Environmental Strategies in an Evolutionary Economy-Environment System: 8. Time, uncertainty, and external effects; 9. The market solution; 10. The stationary state; 11. Conclusions; References; Index.

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