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14.475 Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure
This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regulations, and the evaluation of the impact of regulations in areas such as financial markets, workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts.
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- June 9, 2011
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- June 12, 2018
- Author:
- Prof. Michael Greenstone
- Submitter:
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Cathy Swift
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division
- Mobile Compatibility:
- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
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- No
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