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Includes bibliographical references.

Recommended readings (Machine generated): R.H. Coase (1960), 'The Problem of Social Cost', Journal of Law and Economics, III, October, 1-44 -- Harold Demsetz (1967), 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, 57 (2), May, 347-59 -- Garrett Hardin (1968), 'The Tragedy of the Commons', Science, 162 (3859), December, 1243-8 -- Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed (1972), 'Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral', Harvard Law Review, 85 (6), April, 1089-128 -- Robert C. Ellickson (1986), 'Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta County', Stanford Law Review, 38, February, 623-87 -- Carol M. Rose (1991), 'Rethinking Environmental Controls: Management Strategies for Common Resources', Duke Law Journal, 1991 (1), February, 1-38 -- William J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates (1971), 'The Use of Standards and Prices for Protection of the Environment', Swedish Journal of Economics, 73 (1), March, 42-54 -- W. David Montgomery (1972), 'Markets in Licenses and Efficient Pollution Control Programs', Journal of Economic Theory, 5 (3), December, 395-418 -- Martin L. Weitzman (1974), 'Prices vs. Quantities', Review of Economic Studies, 41 (4), October, 477-91 -- A. Mitchell Polinsky (1980), 'Resolving Nuisance Disputes: The Simple Economics of Injunctive and Damage Remedies', Stanford Law Review, 32, July, 1075-112 -- Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell (1996), 'Property Rules Versus Liability Rules: An Economic Analysis', Harvard Law Review, 109 (4), February, 713-90 -- Richard R.W. Brooks (2002), 'The Relative Burden of Determining Property Rules and Liability Rules: Broken Elevators in the Cathedral', Northwestern University Law Review, 97 (1), Fall, 267-317 -- Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), 'The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth', in Henry Jarrett (ed) (ed.), Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 3-14 -- John V. Krutilla (1967), 'Conservation Reconsidered', American Economic Review, 57 (4), September, 777-86 -- Kenneth J. Arrow and Anthony C. Fisher (1974), 'Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 88, 312-19 -- Laurence H. Tribe (1974), 'Ways Not to Think About Plastic Trees: New Foundations for Environmental Law', Yale Law Journal, 83 (7), June, 1315-48 -- John M. Hartwick (1977), 'Intergenerational Equity and the Investing of Rents from Exhaustible Resources', American Economic Review, 67 (5), December, 972-4 -- Richard C. Bishop (1978), 'Endangered Species and Uncertainty: The Economics of a Safe Minimum Standard', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 60 (1), February, 10-18 -- Robert Solow (1993), 'An Almost Practical Step toward Sustainability', Resources Policy, 19 (3), September, 162-72

Richard L. Revesz (1999), 'Environmental Regulation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the Discounting of Human Lives', Columbia Law Review, 99, 941-1017 -- Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman (1999), 'When is Command- and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection', Wisconsin Law Review, 1999, 887-938 -- Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian W.H. Parry, Roberton C. Williams III and Dallas Burtraw (1999), 'The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection in a Second-best Setting', Journal of Public Economics, 72, 329-60 -- Carolyn Fischer, Ian W.H. Parry and William A. Pizer (2003), 'Instrument Choice for Environmental Protection when Technological Innovation is Endogenous', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 45 (3), May, 523-45 -- Juan-Pablo Montero (2005), 'Pollution Markets with Imperfectly Observed Emissions', RAND Journal of Economics, 36 (3), Autumn, 645-60 -- Robert N. Stavins (2006), 'Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation', Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 25 (1), January, 29-63 -- Robert N. Stavins and Adam B. Jaffe (1990), 'Unintended Impacts of Public Investments on Private Decisions: The Depletion of Forested Wetlands', American Economic Review, 80 (3), June, 337-52 -- Don Fullerton and Thomas C. Kinnaman (1996), 'Household Responses to Pricing Garbage by the Bag', American Economic Review, 86 (4), September, 971-84 -- Lisa Heinzerling (1998), 'Regulatory Costs of Mythic Proportions', Yale Law Journal, 107, 1981-2070 -- Juan-Pablo Montero (1999), 'Voluntary Compliance with Market-Based Environmental Policy: Evidence from the U.S. Acid Rain Program', Journal of Political Economy, 107 (5), 998-1033 -- Michael Greenstone (2004), 'Did the Clean Air Act Cause the Remarkable Decline in Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations?' Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 47 (3), May, 585-611 -- Richard B. Stewart (1993), 'Environmental Regulation and International Competitiveness', Yale Law Journal, 102 (8), June, 2039-106 -- Adam B. Jaffe, Steven R. Peterson, Paul R. Portney and Robert N. Stavins (1995), 'Environmental Regulation and the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXIII (1), March, 132-63 -- Vicki Been and Francis Gupta (1997), 'Coming to the Nuisance or Going to the Barrios? A Longitudinal Analysis of Environmental Justice Claims', Ecology Law Quarterly, 24 (1), 1-56 -- John A. List, Daniel L. Millimet, Per G. Fredriksson and W. Warren McHone (2003), 'Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: Evidence from a Propensity Score Matching Estimator', Review of Economics and Statistics, 85 (4), November, 944-52 -- Meghan R. Busse and Nathaniel O. Keohane (2007), 'Market Effects of Environmental Regulation: Coal, Railroads, and the 1990 Clean Air Act', RAND Journal of Economics, 38 (4), Winter, 1159-79 -- W. Kip Viscusi (2000), 'The Value of Life in Legal Contexts: Survey and Critique', American Law and Economics Review, 2 (1), Spring, 195-222 -- John A. List, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara and Joe Kerkvliet (2004), 'Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences', American Economic Review, 94 (3), June, 741-52 -- Gideon Parchomovsky and Peter Siegelman (2004), 'Selling Mayberry: Communities and Individuals in Law and Economics', California Law Review, 92 (1), January, 75-146

Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone (2005), 'Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market', Journal of Political Economy, 113 (2), 376-424 -- Martin L. Weitzman (2007), 'A Review of The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change ', Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (3), September, 703-24

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