Polluting Production - Environmentally Sound Alternatives

Tamas Kocsis

Society and Economy, 2002, vol. 24, issue 1, 69-100

Abstract: With the determination of principal parameters of producing and pollution abatement technologies, this paper quantifies abatement and external costs at the social optimum and analyses the dynamic relationship between technological development and the above-mentioned costs. With the partial analysis of parameters, the paper presents the impacts on the level of pollution and external costs of extensive and intensive environmental protection, market demand change and product fees, and not environmental-protection-oriented technological development. Parametrical cost calculation makes the drawing up of two useful rules of thumb possible in connection with the rate of government interventions. Also, the paradox of technological development aiming at intensive environmental protection will become apparent.

Keywords: microeconomics; environmental economics; pollution; externalities; Kuznets curve; cleaner production; environmental policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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