Economic Thinking and Pollution Problems Auld Paperback 9780802017673

Economic Thinking and Pollution ProblemsAuthor(s): Douglas Auld\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802017673, 978-0802017673\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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 some.