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. In the second edition of this popular title, Richard Stroup explains why many of our environmental laws have failed us and how we might go about doing a better job protecting the environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944424008
Publisher:	Cato Institute
Publication date:	07/07/2016
Edition description:	Updated and expanded
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Richard Stroup is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University and former Professor of Economics at Montana State University. He is an expert on privatization, the environment, and Superfund. He is coauthor of Economics: Public and Private Choice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Changing Environmentalism Chapter 2: Scarcity: An Economics Primer Chapter 3: Rights: How Property Rights and Market Place Conflict with Cooperation Chapter 4: Coercion: Protecting the Environment with Government Action Chapter 5: Choosing: Economics and Environmental Policy Choices Chapter 6: Climate Change and the Problem of Energy