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Painting the White House Green Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President
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Presidents, like kings, lead cloistered lives. Protecting the president from too much isolation are advisers and aides who help ensure that the administration achieves its policy goals while enjoying broad political support. In economics and environmental policy, where disagreement among stakeholders and expert opinion is especially strong, the president needs good advice about political strategy,... Read more
Foreword by Janet Yellen
Preface
About the Contributors
Introduction: Lessons from a Hot Seat
Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren
1. A Tale of Two Policies: Clear Skies and Climate Change
William A. Pizer
2. Head in the Clouds Decision-Making: EPA‘s Air Quality Standards for Ozone
Randall Lutter
3. Economic Analysis and the Formulation of U.S. Climate Policy
Michael A. Toman
4. Saving the Planet Cost-Effectively: The Role of Economic Analysis in Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Joseph E. Aldy
5. Making Markets for Global Forest Conservation
Jonathan B. Wiener
6. Electricity Restructuring and the Environment
Stephen Polasky
7. Do All the Resource Problems in the West Begin in the East? Revisited
Jason F. Shogren
8. The Good News and the Bad News from Washington
Ray Squitieri
References
Index
Biography
Randall Lutter is chief economist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Jason F. Shogren is the Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management and a professor of economics at the University of Wyoming.
'Reveals the way economic analysis is used, and ignored, by top-level policymakers. All eight essays are written by former staff members of the White House‘s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). . . . It thus presents a thoroughly insider‘s view. . . . Directly or indirectly, climate change is the issue that strings together the essays in the book. . . . All the essays help answer the question of how best to deal with climate change. Each one presents in a different context the analytical tools economists use to protect the environment.' Environment and Planning '[This book] gives a rare inside look at the tensions in economic and environmental policymaking at the top of the U.S. federal structure. . . .Knowledgeable economists show how they dealt with these complex . . . issues in the three past administrations.' Journal of Environmental Science & Policy
