Project Appraisal and Macroeconomic Policy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)

Environmental economics addresses the issues that arise on the boundaries between economic systems and natural systems, such as pollution and natural resource de pletion and degradation. Like any other branch of applied economics, it has drawn its tools and techniques from the wide range already available in economics gener ally, selecting, adapting and extending these to meet its own particular requirements in its own particular context. Here, as elsewhere in economics, public policy analy sis requires quantitative assessments of the economic impact of different policy choices. Perhaps the most distinctive contribution of environmental economics has been the development of techniques for the economic valuation of environmental goods and services in the absence of markets for such goods and services, or in the presence of markets that are at best imperfect or incomplete. Nevertheless policy analysis still relies on one or another of three broad groups of methods used in eco nomics generally. One is project appraisal, which at the micro level provides an evaluation ofthe costs and benefits ofinvestment options to inform the choice among them, while at the macro level policy analysis rests either on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models or on economy-wide macroeconometric models. All models are simplifications, designed to focus attention on the important fea tures ofthe problem at hand, and neglecting other features that might for a different problem assume greater importance.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1996
Authors:	T. Van Der Burg
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
ISBN-13:	978-9401065030
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > General Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > General Promotions
LSN:	9401065039
Barcode:	9789401065030

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