Wallace Oates était un érudit de premier plan en économie publique et environnementale, se concentrant sur l'affectation des fonctions entre les différents niveaux de gouvernement dans un système fédéral. Il a profondément exploré la fourniture de biens publics locaux, la conception de subventions intergouvernementales et la structure des systèmes de revenus locaux. Son travail en économie de l'environnement s'est centré sur l'utilisation d'incitations économiques pour la gestion environnementale. Il a notamment étudié la conception et la mise en œuvre de taxes sur les activités polluantes et de systèmes de quotas d'émission négociables.
The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this book, the author explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation.
In this book, Professors Baumol and Oates provide a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy.
This title marks a milestone in the comprehension of the accomplishments of our free-market economic system - a new understanding that promises to benefit many countries that lack the advantages of this immense innovation machine.
Bringing together major articles on the economics of the environment and natural resources, this book encompasses works on the theory of externalities and its application to environmental regulation, techniques for the valuation of environmental amenities, the theory and management of common property resources, and the intertemporal analysis of managing both exhaustable and renewable resources. These papers represent the ongoing research in environmental and natural resource economics.