Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy

Experts examine how reliance on free markets contributed to the U.S. failure to address climate change and offer recommendations for new ideas to guide policy. The United States, once a world leader in addressing international environmental challenges, became a vigorous opponent of action on climate change over the past two decades, repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary actions to meet a growing global threat. Why has the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042525
• ISBN13: 9780262042529
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher