Public Choice and Environmental Regulation: Tradable Permit Systems in the United States and CO2 Taxation in Europe

by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

A description and assessment of the actual experience with systems of tradable permits for environmental management. It also sets this treatment in a public-choice framework, to demonstrate why policy makers in Europe have chosen Green Taxes whereas US counterparts have gone for tradable permits.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858986281
• ISBN13: 9781858986289
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages