Environmental Policy Making In Economies With Prior Tax Distortions

Download or read book Environmental Policy Making in Economies with Prior Tax Distortions written by Lawrence Herbert Goulder and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 31 contributions from Goulder (economics, Stanford U.) and other scholars on the interactions between environmental policy initiatives and distortionary taxes (such as income and sales taxes). Coverage includes such topics as tradeable emissions permits, the substitution of taxes on pollution for existing distortionary taxes, and the effects of environmental policies on income distribution. With the exception of Agnar Sandmo's 1975 paper on the optimal setting of commodity taxes, the contributions have all been published in various economic journals no earlier than 1994. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR