Economics of Global Warming

Booknews

A collection of 31 reprinted articles representing an international selection of scholarly work directed toward the issue of global warming. The contributors discuss general perspectives and risk, present damage estimates for agriculture, review the cost of control by estimating the economic benefits of limiting emissions, evaluate the optimal solutions of controlling greenhouse gases, and examine the techniques of carbon taxes and hedging strategies as instruments of choice in meeting the necessity of environmental controls while keeping finances reasonable. Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.