Hodge (land economy, U. of Cambridge) explains and assesses the role of economics in choices about the environment, in the explanation of sources of degradation, in the evaluation of change, and in the development of policy. After setting out the principles and applications, he presents cases of air pollution, the countryside, the rainforest, and climate change. Assumes no background in economics, but may interest economists. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Environmental Economics: Individual Incentives and Public Choices

Business & Money

Ian Hodge

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>For about three decades, from the mid-1930's until the mid-1960's, the economic ideas of one man ruled the Western world: John Maynard Keynes. Even today, his aging disciples have only recently begun to retire from university teaching in sufficient numbers, so as to allow a serious debate in economics to re-appear after half a century in the better universities. In the second-rate and third-rate colleges, Keynes' ideas are still dominant. Who was John Maynard Keynes? He was the son of British economist John Neville Keynes. He was a brilliant essayist with a wide-ranging mind. He made his reputation with a book on the theory of probability, not economics. He was also a man who never went through the boredom or the discipline of a graduate program in economics. He earned a bachelor's degree and quit. Smart man. He was hired to lecture in economics program. He wrote his way into prominence. He was also a homosexual pervert who led a secret society heavily represented by other homosexual perverts. His ideas laid the foundation of the "mixed economy" part free market, part government planning, and completely inflationary. As he grew older, his books became increasingly incoherent and steadily more popular, for each book increasingly promoted national economic planning. The politicians loved him: he was giving academic reasons for budget deficits, price controls, and monetary inflation. The younger economists loved him, for his ideas were creating lifetime employment opportunities for them as government economic planners. It was Keynes, more than any man in the twentieth century, who is intellectually responsible for today's looming bank crisis, the huge government deficits, and the eventual default of governments on their financial obligations. He gave the Western economy a large does of intellectual AIDS.</p>

Baptized Inflation: A Critique of "Christian" Keynesianism

Dominion Pr

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Environmental Economics: Individual Incentives and Public Choices

Baptized Inflation: A Critique of "Christian" Keynesianism