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Political Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics /

Economists have long argued that market-based instruments such as, environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative externalities of any kind of economic activities. Yet, whether the effects of using these instruments are sufficient, whether they are act...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Reichl, Johannes, 1979-, Kollmann, Andrea, 1980-, Schneider, Friedrich
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Foreword
  • 1 Introduction
  • I Motivation
  • 2 From Theory to Practice
  • 3 The Political Economy of Climate Instruments
  • II Empirical Aspects
  • 4 How Trust in Governments Influences the Acceptance of Environmental Taxes
  • 5 Political Determinants of Fossil Fuel Pricing
  • 6 The Evolution of Renewable Energy Policy in OECD Countries
  • 7 Green Parties, Environmental Taxation, and International Trade
  • III Theoretical Aspects
  • 8 Policy Distortions due to Heterogeneous Beliefs
  • 9 The Impact of Domestic Policy Constraints on International Environmental Agreements
  • 10 The Clean Development Mechanism, Stochastic Permit Prices, and Energy Investments
  • 11 Not In My Backyard Activism and Information
  • 12 Time-Consistent Climate Policies
  • Contributors
  • Index.