The Trade Off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment

by Eban S. Goodstein

Book Overview

Many Americans believe three things about jobs and the environment: that the implementation of environmental protection measures has created ongoing, widespread unemployment; that it has caused large... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559636831
• ISBN13: 9781559636834
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Seperates truth from fiction

The Trade-Off Myth: Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the Environment (Eban Goodstein, Island Press, 1999) Goodstein looks at several claims about jobs and the environment, and finds them all to be false: that regulations cause economy wide loss of jobs, that they devastate local economies, that they create pollution havens, that environmental regulations will generate large numbers of new jobs, and that efforts to control global warming will cause massive losses of jobs. Well written and highly recommended.