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Chapter 0: Math Review

                   More Math Review

                  Articles to Read

Chapter 1: What is Economics? (revised)

Chapter 2: When is a Market Socially Optimal? (revised)

Chapter 3: Welfare Economics (revised)

Chapter 4: Negative Externalities and Policy (revised)

Chapter 5: Pollution Control Under Heterogeneity (revised)

Chapter 6: Property Rights and Political Economy (revised)

Handout on criteria for policy instrument choice (discussed in class February 17th)  

Chapter 7: Public Goods (revised)

Chapter 7b: Public Goods (Part II) (revised)

Biodiversity and endangered species (powerpoint presentation)

Chapter 8: Technological Change and Pollution Control (revised)

Chapter 9: Valuation

Chapter 12: Environment, Trade, and Development 

Chapter 13: Environmental Health Risks and Pesticides

Chapter 14: The Economics of Climate Change 

Chapter 14A: Climate Change Addendum

Chapter 16:Surface Water Economics

Chapter 17: Irrigation Economics

Chapter 17A:Water Quality

Chapter 18: Pesticide Economics

Chapter 19: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Intellectual Property Rights

Chapter 20: Environmental Services

Chapter 20A: Environmental Services

Chapter 20C: Environmental Services

Chapter 20D: Environmental Services

Chapter 20E: Environmental Services

Chapter 21: Animal Waste

Chapter 22: On Economics, Ethics, Politics and the Environment

Chapter 22A:Economics and Ethics

Chapter 23:Energy and the Environment

Environment and Development: Environmental Kuznets Curves (lecture notes April 21st)
Global Public Goods and International Environmental Agreements: The Ozone Layer (lecture notes April 26th)
Global Public Goods and International Environmental Agreements: Global Climate Change (lecture notes April 28th & May 3rd)
Environment and Development: Defining and Measuring Sustainable Development (lecture notes May 5th)

Appendix 

(i) Irreversibility and Option Value


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