Econ 4545: Environmental Economics
Lecture notes available online:
Introductory section
Some brief notes on extinction
Notes on Materials Balance , E.R. Morey
Why a course in environmental economics?
Equity and efficiency defined and considered
audio file: Finishing MB, why a course in environmental, and starting eff
An introduction to market failures
Edward's micro principles notes (Econ 2010) on Common property resources
Edward's micro principles notes (Econ 2010) on External effects, externalities, and pollution
Edward's micro principles notes (Econ 2010): An introduction to public commodities
Edward's micro principles notes (Econ 2010): Achieving environmental goals at minimum cost
A student asked me how efficiency and social welfare relate to Benefit Cost analysis
The Ethicist: A Dog's Death, Randy Cohen, NYT September 25, 2005
Non-market valuation
A start on nonmarket valuation: value and consumer's surplus
Defining the comensating and equivalent variations
How can consumer's surplus measures be used to evaluate policies?
The difference between the CV and the EV - this is more advanced material
A brief introduction to travel-cost modeling: Coeur d'Alene
Mountain Biking: Choice Experiments
Hedonics: An introduction to using variations in prices to value environmental amenities
Mobile-source pollution
An introduction to mobile-source pollution -rough drafts
Two reasons to increase the tax on oil: Pigou's reason and OPEC, -rough draft
Congestion and Static Common-property resources
Congestion and road tolls: Pigou's narrow road to Breck
Should I-70 west of Denver be a toll road?
Global warming
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