Econ Ethics Env Policy or So You Think I Drive a Cadillac

Econ Ethics Env Policy

Author: Bromley

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Contributors
	Preface and Acknowledgments
1	Contested Choices	3
2	Are Choices Tradeoffs?	17
3	The Ignorance Argument: What Must We Know to be Fair to the Future?	35
4	Benefit-Cost Considerations Should be Decisive When There is Nothing More Important at Stake	53
5	Environmental Policy as a Process of Reasonable Valuing	69
6	Rethinking the Choice and Performance of Environmental Policies	87
7	What Should We Do with Inconsistent, Nonwelfaristic, and Undeveloped Preferences?	103
8	Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation	120
9	All Environmental Policy Instruments Require a Moral Choice as to Whose Interests Count	133
10	Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in Environmental Policy	148
11	Trading with the Enemy? Examining North-South Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate	164
12	Social Costs and Sustainability	181
13	Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation of the Environment	205
14	Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources of the Stated WTP for Endangered Species	222
15	Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of a Basic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa	239
16	Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy	261
	Index	277

Book review: The Ultimate Weight Solution or Net Carb Counter

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform

Author: Karen Seccomb

Overview:
This down-to-earth look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues with raising their families, and what their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future. Welfare recipients who were interviewed by the author share their perspectives on work requirements, family caps, time limits, and other features of the new welfare reform (TANF) program. These qualitative interviews are theoretically grounded, and supplemented with up-to-date statewide and national data on welfare reform and its consequences.

Underneath the political rhetoric and welfare statistics are real live human beings who are trying to make sense out of their lives. Their voices provide a crucial counterpoint to the politicians and policy “experts” who have shaped the policy reform initiative. They show us that the so-called welfare problem is related to the insecurity of low-tier work in the United States.
–Karen Seccombe

What Reviewers Are Saying:

I particularly like the way Seccombe goes back and forth between “big picture” history and data and her interviews with real people. –Echo E. Fields, Southern Oregon University

Each chapter covers issues of importance as we address poverty/welfare and its impact on the lives of women and children.[This text] is readable by students at all levels, it is interesting in that it provides for my students real life examples, and most importantly, it challenges those stereotypes that so many students havewhen they think of poor women and children. –Jane McCandless, West Georgia University

Students find Seccombe’s text easy to read and engaging. –Jackie McReynolds, Washington State University