1st Edition
The Natural Wealth of Nations Harnessing the Market and the Environment
By David Roodman
Copyright 1999
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment. The Natural Wealth of Nations shows how cutting these wasteful subsidies can actually boost the economy, save tax and help the environment.
By raising taxes on harmful activities like air pollution whilst cutting taxes on payrolls and profits, pollution is discouraged and both work and... Read more
Harnessing the MarketI: The Price of Paying the Polluter - Subsidy Anatomy - Resource Subsidies - Cash Subsidies - Infrastructure SubsidiesII: New Directions - Reforming Subsidies for the Polluter - Capturing Resource Windfalls - Paying the Non-Polluter - Taxing the PolluterIII: From Theory to Practice - Environmental Taxes: Practical Limits and Potential - Making Reform Fair - Tax Cuts - An Eco-Industrial Revolution - The Political Marketplace
Biography
Roodman, David
