14.475 2005春季课程：环境经济学与市场失灵的政府因应(Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure, Spring 2005)
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特写近看发电厂烟囱冒出的浓烟，时间是1975年，地点是宾州匹兹堡郊外的Duquesne电力公司菲利浦发电厂。该公司投入四千二百万美金装置湿式排烟脱硫设备 降低空气污染排放，以改善环境。( 图片来源：美国文件文件管理局 )
Closeup of smoke from a stack at the Phillips Power Station of the Duquesne Light Company outside of Pittsburgh, PA in 1975. The company installed wet scrubbers to minimize emissions in a $42 million environmental improvement project. (Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)
Closeup of smoke from a stack at the Phillips Power Station of the Duquesne Light Company outside of Pittsburgh, PA in 1975. The company installed wet scrubbers to minimize emissions in a $42 million environmental improvement project. (Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)
课程重点
课程描述
本课程探讨政府因应市场失灵所制订的管制、课税或其他对策之理论基础与实证资料，特别着重于建立及执行用以评价环境政策的工具。其他的议题包含成本效益分析、衡量无市场财货之效益及管制成本、评估各方面管制政策的影响，如金融市场、工作场所安全卫生、消费者产品保护及其他。
This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regulations, and the evaluation of the impact of regulations in areas such as financial markets, workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts.
This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regulations, and the evaluation of the impact of regulations in areas such as financial markets, workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts.
