Bromley, Daniel W. : University of Wisconsin-Madison
Daniel W. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Applied
Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written and edited numerous books including Sustaining
Development (1999), The Handbook of Environmental Economics (1995), Making the Commons Work (1992), Environment
and Economy (1991), and Economic Interests and Institutions (1989). He is also the editor of the journal Land Economics,
the oldest and most distinguished international journal in environmental and natural resources economics.
Paavola, Jouni : University of Oxford
Jouni Paavola is a Research Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics,
and Society (OCEES) in Mansfield College at the University of Oxford.
Summary
Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical
problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.
The volume has practical relevance because policy recommendations and choices based on economic analysis are often
contested by critics. This book takes their criticism seriously. It seeks to clarify and defend the ethical foundations
of environmental economics and examines what lessons environmental economics should draw from the criticism. As
a result, the volume improves our understanding of the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis
of environmental problems and policy. The contribution is all the more important because the problem has not been
extensively studied.
Table of Contents
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction.
Part II: Economics, Ethics, and Policy Choices.
Part III: Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals.
Part IV: Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences.
Part V: Ethics in Aaction: Emperical Analysis.
Part VI: Conclusions.
Index.
