14.42 | Spring 2011 | Undergraduate

Environmental Policy and Economics

Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS SLIDES NOTES
1 Why I like environmental economics (PDF)  
2 Social choice (PDF)  
3 Efficiency and markets (PDF) (PDF)
4 Cost-benefit analysis and public goods (PDF) (PDF)
5 Regulation and Pigouvian taxes (PDF) (PDF)
6 Coase and cap-and-trade (PDF) (PDF)
7 Pigouvian taxes   (PDF)
8 Topics in cap-and-trade (PDF) (PDF)
9 Risk, uncertainty, and liability (PDF) (PDF)
  Midterm    
10 International competition (PDF) (PDF)
11 Environmental Kuznets curves   (PDF)
12 The Porter hypothesis (PDF) (PDF)
13 Regulation in developing economies (PDF - 1.7MB) (PDF)
14 Valuation and hedonics (PDF) (PDF)
15 Household production and discrete choice (PDF) (PDF)
16 Natural resource economics (PDF) (PDF)
17 Natural resource economics II (PDF) (PDF)
18 Climate change policy (PDF) (PDF)
19 South pole carbon asset management (PDF) (PDF)
20 Visit to MIT cogeneration plant    
21 OPOWER   (PDF)

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