Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy - (Research in Law and Economics) by R O Zerbe & T Swanson (Hardcover)

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Three important issues concerning institutional design are: policies, instruments, and enforcement. This volume surveys each of the issues, and emphasises the common themes arising in optimal institutional design. It looks at the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems.

Book Synopsis

"An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy" emphasises the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems. Three important issues concerning institutional design are: policies, instruments, and enforcement. This volume surveys each of the issues, and emphasises the common themes arising in optimal institutional design. These themes include the cost of complex institutional design, and the role of private institutions attaining social objects. This book will be particularly useful to law schools, departments of government, policy or economics, environmental managers and insurance companies.

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...Twelve papers with comments study issues of institutional design in the context of environmental policy.
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