Environmental market failures: are there any local market-based corrective mechanisms for global problems ?
Author: Ayres, Robert U. INSEAD Area: Economics and Political ScienceIn: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, vol. 1, no. 3, March 1997 Language: EnglishDescription: p. 289-309.Type of document: INSEAD ArticleNote: Please ask us for this itemAbstract: The paper reviews various policy tools that have been discussed in the literature, including legal, administrative and fiscal (tax) schemes, as well as tradeable emission permits, and concludes that none of them are really suitable for dealing with global problems. An alternative is suggested, namely the use of tradeable individual consumption quotas for traded commodities at the national level, to be extended later to the global level by trading quotas among nations (assuming agreement can be reached on the basis for determining quotas)| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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The paper reviews various policy tools that have been discussed in the literature, including legal, administrative and fiscal (tax) schemes, as well as tradeable emission permits, and concludes that none of them are really suitable for dealing with global problems. An alternative is suggested, namely the use of tradeable individual consumption quotas for traded commodities at the national level, to be extended later to the global level by trading quotas among nations (assuming agreement can be reached on the basis for determining quotas)
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