Below are links to articles on the reading list that are available on-line through the Syracuse University library.  The articles are organized by date and subject, as on the syllabus.  For articles on reserve at the library, a link to Blackboard is provided.  Note that this is not a complete syllabus, as it does not include articles in the textbooks.

Because these articles are made available through the SU library, they are only available to SU students.  If you are using a computer on campus, the links will take you directly to the article.

Vascellaro, Jessica E., “Green Groups See Potent Tool in Economics,” The Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2005.

January 14 – Scarcity: The Key Problem in Economics
Lomborg, Bjorn, “The truth about the environment,” The Economist, August 4, 2001, pp. 63-65.

January 21 – Market Failures

“A rising tide,” The Economist, September 20, 2008, pp. 97-98.

January 26 – Modeling Pollution

January 28 – Should the Government Intervene?

Broder, John M., “Los Angeles Groups Agree to Airport Growth, for a Price,” The New York Times, December 17, 2004, A22.

Egan, Timothy, “Oregon’s Property Rights Law Kicks In, Easing Rigid Rules,” The New York Times, July 25, 2006, p. A14.

February 2 – Command and Control Policies for the Environment: The Case of Water

Stavins, Robert N. (2006), “Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation,” Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 25(1), 29-63.

February 4 & 9 – Emissions Fees and Subsidies
Fullerton, Don, Andrew Leicester, and Stephen Smith (2008), “Environmental Taxes,” NBER Working Paper #14197 (sec. 1-4 required, 5-8 optional).

Millock, Katrin and Thomas Sterner (2004), “NO_X Emissions in France and Sweden: Advanced Fee Schemes versus Regulation,” chapter 5 in Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe, Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern, and Thomas Sterner, eds., Resources for the Future Press: Washington, DC, pp. 117-132.  on reserve

Hanson, Craig and David Sandalow (2006), “Greening the Tax Code,” Tax Reform and the Environment, The Brookings Institution.

“Mountains for the centuries,” The Economist, February 3, 2007, p. 35.

February 11 – Tradable Permits: theory
Bell, Ruth Greenspan, “Are Market-Based Instruments the Right First Choice for Countries in Transition?” Resources, Winter 2002, pp. 10-14.

February 16 – Permit Trading Policy in Practice – Acid Rain and SO2 Permits

Schmalensee, Richard et al., “An Interim Evaluation of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Trading,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 12, Summer 1998, pp. 53-68.

Barringer, Felicity, “A Plan to Curb Farm-to-Watershed Pollution of Chesapeake Bay,” The New York Times, April 13, 2007, p. A10.

Barringer, Felicity and Kate Galbraith, “States Aim to Cut Gases By Making Polluters Pay,” The New York Times, September 16, 2008, A17, A26.

“Selling hot air,” The Economist, September 9, 2006, pp. S17-S19.

February 18 – Dealing with Risk: Toxins in the Ecosystem
Pindyck, Robert S. (2007), “Uncertainty in Environmental Economics,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 1(1), 45-65.

“Brownfield sites: Muck-spreaders,” The Economist, April 21, 2001, 26-27.

“Tax or Trade,” The Economist, February 16, 2002, p. 72.

February 23 – Voluntary Environmental Compliance

Lyon, Thomas P. and John W. Maxwell (2002), “‘Voluntary’ Approaches to Environmental Regulation,” chapter 4 in Economic Institutions and Environmental Policy, Maurizio Franzini and Antonio Nicita, eds., Ashgate Publishing:  Aldershot, Hampshire, England.

Daley, Beth, “Not as green as they claim to be,” Boston Globe, May 14, 2008.

February 25 – Federalism and Environmental Policy
“Federalism and Environmental Protection: Case Studies for Drinking Water and Ground-Level Ozone,” Congressional Budget Office, November 1997.

Adler, Jonathan H., “The Fable of Federal Environmental Regulation: Reconsidering the Federal Role in Environmental Protection,” Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2004, vol. 55, pp. 93-113.

Barringer, Felicity, “California, Taking Big Gamble, Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases,” The New York Times, September 15, 2006, p. A1, A20-A21.

March 2 – Revealed Preference Techniques

Robinson, Lisa A. (2007), “How US Government Agencies Value Mortality Risk Reductions,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 1(2), 283-299.

March 4 – Stated Preference Techniques

March 16 – The Costs of Environmental Policies
Harrington, Winston, Richard D. Morgenstern, and Peter Nelson, “On the Accuracy of Regulatory Cost Estimates,” RFF Discussion Paper 99-18.

March 18 & 23 – Making Use of Value Measures – Benefit-Cost Analysis
Lee, Jennifer 8., “Second Thoughts on a Chemical: In Water, How Much Is Too Much?” The New York Times, March 2, 2004, F1, F4.

Varian, Hal R., “Recalculating the Costs of Global Climate Change,” The New York Times, December 14, 2006, p. C3.

Wilson, Richard and Crouch, E.A.C., “Risk Assessment and Comparisons: An Introduction,” Science, April 17, 1987, vol. 236, pp. 267-270.

“The price of prudence,” The Economist, January 24, 2004, S6-S8.

March 25 & 30 – Growth and the Environment
Harashima, Yohei, “Effects of Economic Growth on Environmental Policies in Northeast Asia,” Environment, vol. 42, July/August 2000, pp. 28-40.

Bradsher, Keith, “Clean Air or TV: Paying in Pollution for Energy Hunger,” The New York Times, January 9, 2007, C1, C9.

“How green is their growth,” The Economist, January 26, 2008, 57-58.

“Survey: Development and the Environment,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S1-S16. (Individual articles listed below)
“Dirt Poor,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S3-S5.
“Water Hazard,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S5-S7.
“Yellow Skies, Smarting Eyes,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S7-S9.
“Living Dangerously,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S8.
“Stumped by Trees,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S10-S12.
“Loaves and Fishes,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S12-14.
“A Bit Rich,” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. S15-S16.

“Saving the rainforest,” The Economist, July 24, 2004, p. 12.

“Asphalt and the jungle,” The Economist, July 24, 2004, pp. 33-35.

“Down in the woods,” The Economist, March 25, 2006, pp. 73-75.

“Farming the garden of Eden,” The Economist, March 25, 2000, pp. S10-S13.

“Liquid assets: where to look for sensible water policies,” The Economist, July 19, 2003, pp. S13-S15.

“To market, to market,” The Economist, July 19, 2003, pp. S15-S16.

“The paradox of plenty,” The Economist, December 24, 2005, pp. 46-47.

April 1 – Sustainable Development
“The Greening of China,” The Economist, October 22, 2005, pp. 43-44.

“Working miracles,” The Economist, July 6, 2002, S13-S15.

Boyd, James W., “What Should Be Counted in Green GDP,” Resources, Summer 2006, pp. 6-9.

Daly, Herman E., “Operationalizing Sustainable Development by Investing in Natural Capital,” chapter 4 in Beyond Growth,
Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1996.  on reserve

Bradsher, Keith, “Clean Power That Reaps a Whirlwind,” The New York Times, May 9, 2007, p. C1, C5.

Cowen, Tyler, “A Way for Resource-Rich Countries to Audit Their Way Out of Corruption,” The New York Times, July 12, 2007, p. C3.

Dean, Cornelia, “To Save Its Canal, Panama Fights for Its Forests,” The New York Times, May 24, 2005, F1, F4.

April 6 – International Agreements
Bhagwati, Jagdish, “The Case for Free Trade,” Scientific American, November 1993, pp. 42-49.  on reserve

Daly, Herman E., “The Perils of Free Trade,” Scientific American, November 1993, pp. 50-57.  on reserve

Esty, Daniel C., “Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 15, Summer 2001, pp. 113-130. 

“Atmospheric pressure,” The Economist, April 19, 2003, p. 64.

“Emissions suspicions,” The Economist, June 21, 2008, 88.

“The standard question,” The Economist, January 15, 2000, p. 79.

April 8 – Global Warming
Pizer, William A., “The Evolution of a Global Climate Change Agreement,” American Economic Review, 96(2), May 2006, pp. 26-30.  on reserve

Gelling, Peter and Andrew C. Rivkin, “Climate Talks Take On Added Urgency After Report,” The New York Times, December 3, 2007, p. A3.

Lohr, Steve, “The Cost of an Overheated Planet,” The New York Times, December 12, 2006, C1, C5.

Revkin, Andrew C., “Reports From Four Fronts in the War on Warming,” The New York Times, April 3, 2007, p. F4.  Includes these four examples:

Lafranaire, Sharon, "Prone to Drought, But Moving Ahead on Desalination," The New York Times, April 3, 2007., p. F4.
Mydans, Seth, "Prone to Drought, But Moving Ahead on Desalination," The New York Times, April 3, 2007., p. F4.
Sengupta, Somini, "At Risk From Floods, and Defenseless When the Rivers Rise," The New York Times, April 3, 2007., p. F4.
Lyall, Sarah, "At Risk From Floods, but Looking Ahead With Floating Houses," The New York Times, April 3, 2007., p. F4.

“Adapt or die,” The Economist, September 13, 2008, 67-68.

“Dismal calculations,” The Economist, September 9, 2006, pp. S14-S17.

“Melting Asia,” The Economist, June 7, 2008, 29-32.

April 13 – Climate Policy Simulation

April 15 – Energy and the Environment
Perloff, Jeffrey M., “Exhaustible Resources,” Microeconomics: Fourth Edition, pp. 562-568.  on reserve

Mouawad, Jad, “Rising Global Demand for Oil Provoking New Energy Crisis,” The New York Times, November 9, 2007, p. A1, A24.

Varian, Hal R., “The Rapidly Changing Signs at the Gas Station Show Markets at Work,” The New York Times, August 24, 2006, p. C3.

“Shock treatment,” The Economist, November 17, 2007, p. 92.

April 20 & 22 – Alternative Energy Technologies

Holdren, John P. (2006), “The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21st Century Energy Challenges,” innovations, pp. 3-23.

Jaffe, Adam B., Richard G. Newell, and Robert N. Stavins, “Technology Policy for Energy and the Environment,” in Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, eds., Innovation Policy and the Economy, vol 4, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 35-68, 2004. on reserve

Kammen, Daniel M. and Gregory F. Nemet (2005), “Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget,” Issues in Science and Technology, 22(1), 84-88.

Lander, Mark, “Solar Valley Rises in an Overcast Land,” The New York Times, May 16, 2008, C1, C7.

Mouawad, Jad, “A Refinery Clears the Air to Grow Roses,” The New York Times, June 30, 2006, pp. C1, C4.

Revkin, Andrew C., “Budgets Falling in Race to Fight Global Warming,” The New York Times, October 30, 2006, pp. A1, A14.

“Evaluating the Role of Prices and R&D in Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions,” Congressional Budget Office, September 2006.

“Dirty king coal,” The Economist, June 2, 2007, pp. S22-S24.

“Sunlit uplands,” The Economist, June 2, 2007, pp. S16-S20.

“The elusive negawatt,” The Economist, May 10, 2008, 78-80.

“Where to start,” The Economist, September 9, 2006, pp. S23-S24.

April 27 – The Political Economy of Environmental Policy
Adler, Jonathan H., “Rent Seeking Behind the Green Curtain,” CATO Regulation, vol. 19, Fall 1996.

Shogren, Jason F., “A Political Economy in an Ecological Web,” Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 11, 1998, pp. 557-570.