Determining the “Optimum” Amount of Pollution

Jason Scorse

Chapter Chapter 2 in What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics, 2010, pp 17-26 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At first glance, determining an optimum pollution level may strike many environmentalists as strange or even heretical; there is an obvious “optimum” for pollution (despite what economists may think): zero.

Keywords: Pollution Abatement; Pollution Reduction; Optimum Pollution; Additional Pollution; Nuclear Warhead (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230114043_3

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