Environmental Policy when People's Preferences are Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic, or simply Not Developed
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Keywords
ethics; environmental policy; environmental valuation; cost-benefit analysis; endogenous preferences; preference construction; irrationality; bounded rationality; cognitive dissonance; anthropocentrism;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2001-03-13 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2001-04-23 (Environmental Economics)
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