The economics of the Yasun�i initiative climate change as if thermodynamics mattered / [electronic resource] :
Joseph Henry Vogel ; foreword by Graciela Chichilnisky.
- London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.
- xxvi, 117 p. : ill., col. ports.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
Thermodynamics : the language chosen defines the debate -- The tragedy of the commons : a class of problems that has no technical solution -- The willful ignorance of realpolitik : market failure or cost-shifting success? -- The general theory of second best : a rigorous justification for an intuitively just proposal -- Through the bottleneck of a cowboy economy : financing shovel-ready projects -- Conclusions : reason for hope and despair.
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