About this nonfiction
Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods: Pollution Control With Presumptive Charges (Directions in Development (World Bank)) by Gunnar S Eskeland; Shantayanan Devarajan; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
Solving environmental problems, in both developing and industrial countries, appears to be more challenging than merely applying a fee on polluters. The purpose of this book is to show that indirect instruments designed to reduce the scale of output can be important complementary measures in a cost-effective pollution control program. Examples of such instruments are taxes on output or on polluting inputs, called presumptive because their target is the pollution presumed to be associated with the activity. A combination of the two types - those that reduce output and those that reduce emissions per unit of output - can mimic fairly well the effect of an optimal emission fee without the latter's monitoring requirements. A recurring theme throughout the book is that taxation of fuel use can be a powerful indirect instrument for controlling air pollution because of the association between fuel use and emissions. In sum, the authors advocate taxing a "bad" (pollution) by taxing goods (fuels) as part of a program to address air pollution when monitoring of emissions is prohibitively expensive. Chapter I lays out the authors' basic analytical framework. Chapter II treats the case of mobi
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- Author
- Gunnar S Eskeland; Shantayanan Devarajan; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786610090020
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Economics, Social Science