Government and the Environment

The Role of the Modern State in the Face of Global Challenges
Herausgeber: Castellucci, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the today's global "commercial society" an inquiry into the economic role of government is gaining momentum. Many crucial goods for the wellbeing of a society are not "commercial", national security and clean air are great examples. This means that the economic role of government is not limited to cure the so called "market failures" but it has to provide for non-commercial goods. Unfortunately in the last few decades the decline of the political-economic culture of western post-industrial societies has left scope for people to blindly believe in a free, deregulated market.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780415633543
• ISBN-10: 0415633540
• Artikelnr.: 39034701

Autorenporträt

Laura Castellucci is a Full professor of Economic Policy at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theoretical and policy issues Chapter 1. On the disappearance of
the culture of the state from economics and the decline of the
political-economic culture of the West Chapter 2. The failures of
collective action. A formal game-theoretic revisitation of the Olson theory
Chapter 3. Internalizing environmental externalities. From deterministic to
stochastic social damage Chapter 4. Environmental protection, climate
change, and the Green Paradox. State of the art and open issues Part II.
Applications to special areas of environmental policy Chapter 5.
Environmental policy making in real life: illegal waste disposal in the
presence of organized crime Chapter 6. Water conservation and management:
common sense for a common resource? Chapter 7. Technological Lock-In and
the shaping of environmental policy Chapter 8. Common land resources and
forests. The role of multi-level governance