Economic Thinking and Pollution Problems / / Douglas Auld.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Auld, Douglas,
• MitwirkendeR: Auld, D. A. L.,; Bird, Richard M.,; Coase, R. H.,; Economic Council of Canada,,; Graham, J. F.,; Greene, J. J.,; Herfindahl, O. C.,; Kneese, A. V.,; Laet, Christian de,; Mills, Edwin,; Ridker, R. G.,; Schmon, Robert,; Scott, A. D.,; Waverman, Leonard,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

The purpose of this collection is to provide the student with an introduction to the way in which the discipline of economics tackles the problems posed in affluent societies by their various ‘waste’ products. ‘Pollution economics’ introduces a student to aspects of price economics, public finance, and political economy in relation to a pressing and complex public concern. The work includes a number of Canadian statements on pollution and its control in this country, and gives the text of two recent pieces of legislation on the topic. The selections in this volume present a wide variety of opinions, ideas, and facts about the economic dimension of the ecological crisis. Pollution costs money—pollution abatement also costs money and these costs will have to be paid somehow by some people. The contributors—politicians, businessmen, and professors—explore the problem of pollution and its control as each sees it, and the volume as a whole should help encourage a greater awareness both of economics as a way of thinking and of the difficulties in making the right public policies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1. Pollution as an economic problem -- An economic analysis of environmental pollution -- Tools for analysing some environmental problems -- Part 2. Water and air pollution -- Standard-setting as a frame of reference -- On the Canada Water Act -- Environmental pollution -- Part 3. Economic and financial aspects of pollution abatement -- Economic decisions about pollution control -- Economic incentives in air pollution control -- Some fiscal aspects of controlling industrial water pollution -- ‘Pulp and paper is concerned about water pollution’ -- Part 4. Broader conceptual approaches -- The problem of social cost -- The pollution problem -- Part 5. Appendices -- 1. The Canada Water Act -- 2. The Air Pollution Control Act, 1967