Selective Lecture & Discussion Topics

1. The Circular Economy


2. International Externalities 


3. Sustainable Development


4. Green Public Goods


5. International Public Goods


6. Green Spending


7. Cost-benefit analysis


8. Green Transfer Payments


9. Environmental Ethics and Justice


10. Green Taxation


11. Green Budget


12. Disposal of Nuclear Waste


13. Wetland Values


14. Valuation of Natural Resources

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Grades will be determined on the basis of the student’s performance in relation to a) class attendance and participation, b) one individual assignment, c) one group presentation on reviewing a corporate social responsibility (CSR) report released by a Berkshire Hathaway company, and d) one individual report on a field study.

Class attendance and participation (10%)

Individual assignment (20%)

Group presentation (30%)

Field study report (40%)

Suggested Reading and Texts

1. Boulding Kenneth E. Towards a New Economics: Critical Essays on Ecology Distribution and Other Themes. Aldershot Hants. England: Edward Elgar, 1992.

2. Burger, Philippe. Sustainable Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: Theory and Practice. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2003.

3. Clinch, J. Peter; Schlegelmilch, Kai; Sprenger, Rolf-Ulrich and Triebswetter, Ursula. (eds.) Greening the Budget: Budgetary Policies for Environmental Improvement. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2002.

4. Coase, Ronald H. (1991 Nobel Laureate in Economics) “The Problem of Social Cost.” Journal of Law & Economics, October 1960, 3, pp. 1-44.

5. Ferroni, Marco and Mody, Ashoka. (eds.) International Public Goods: Incentives, Measurement, and Financing. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

6. Lin, Brian Chi-ang and Zheng, Siqi. (eds.) Environmental Economics and Sustainability. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

7. Myrdal, Gunnar. (1974 Nobel Laureate in Economics) The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (with a New Introduction by Richard Swedberg). New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1990.

8. Vickrey, William. (1914-1996, 1996 Nobel Laureate in Economics) Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey. Edited by R. Arnott, K. Arrow (1972 Nobel Laureate in Economics), A. Atkinson, and J. Drèze. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

9. Wissenburg, Marcel. Green Liberalism: The Free and the Green Society. London: UCL Press, 1998.