Paul R Portney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1454929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul R Portney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul R |
| FAMILY NAME | Portney |
| SIGNATURE | PORTNEY P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Resources For The Future |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 233 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Policy Watch: The Economics of Fuel Economy Standards
One of the most hotly contested of all energy policy issues involves Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standards for new cars and light-duty trucks. Tighter standards would reduce gasoline consumption, and hence both greenhouse gas emissions as well as this country's vulnerability to oil price shocks. But they would also increase the price of new vehicles, worsen traffic congestion and–depending on how they are phased in–possibly even redu…
On Measuring Economic Values for Nature
This paper describes how economists ascribe values to the things people can choose. The economic value of an ecosystem function or service relates to the contribution it makes to human welfare, where human welfare is measured in terms of each individual's own assessment of well-being. After developing how this definition is used, the paper describes problems and opportunities for advancing the state-of-the-art in measuring economic values for nat…
Environmental Problems and Policy: 2000-2050
The next 50 years will see more use of market-based tools for environmental protection. Regulatory authorities everywhere will require polluters to report emissions. Authority will leak away from national governments; some will be devolved to lower levels of government, but some will be lost to international bodies. Environmental conditions will continue to improve steadily in developed countries. The developing countries will be less fortunate; …
Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?
Benefit-cost analysis can play an important role in legislative and regulatory policy debates on protecting and improving health, safety, and the natural environment. Although formal benefit-cost analysis should not be viewed as either necessary or sufficient for designing sensible public policy, it can provide an exceptionally useful framework for consistently organizing disparate information, and in this way, it can greatly improve the process …
Economics and Health‐based Environmental Standards
Many federal laws dealing with environment, safety, and health contain language directing that certain kinds of standards be set on the basis of health evidence alone. That is, economic considerations are not to be taken into account in setting these standards. This paper presents arguments in defense of this position and then suggests why these arguments are not convincing. In other words, it makes the case that regulators should strive to balan…
Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm
This paper takes issue with the Porter-van der Linde claim that traditional benefit-cost analysis is a fundamental misrepresentation of the environmental problem. They contend that stringent environmental measures induce innovative efforts leading to improvements in abatement and production technologies that offset the costs of the regulations. Drawing both on basic economic theory and existing data on control costs, the authors argue that such o…
The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care
The contingent valuation method, wherein sample surveys are used to elicit individuals' willingness to pay for certain types of policies, is playing an important role in government decision-making. The most prominent applications are in the valuation of damages to natural resources from oil spills. But the contingent valuation method will be more important still if it is used to expand the range of impacts included in applied benefit-cost analyse…
Insights
Trouble in Happyville
Insights
The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation: A Statistical Analysis of EPA Decision Making
This paper examines the EPA's decision to cancel or continue the registration of cancer-causing pesticides that went through the special review process between 1975 and 1989. Despite claims to the contrary, the authors' analysis indicates that the EPA indeed balanced risks to health and the environment against benefits in regulating pesticides. Intervention by special interest groups was also important in the regulatory process. The authors' anal…
Should Workfare Be Mandatory? What Research Says
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Insights
Policy Watch: Economics and the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act, arguably the nation's most important environmental statute, is sure to be amended by the 101st Congress. In neither its current nor its likely new form does the Act feature much of a role for economic considerations. In fact, one approach that many economists would presumably favor-the balancing of benefits and costs in setting air quality or source discharge standards-has been found by courts to be inconsistent with the law (L…
Valuing the benefits of health and safety regulation
Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditure: Reply
Urban air quality and acute respiratory illness
Natural Resources and the Environment, the Reagan Approach
Provides an assessment of the Reagan administration's rebalancing of environmental policy to place more emphasis on production and growth and less on conservation and protection of resources. Of considerable interest to those who wish to understand the changing natural resources and environment policy in this country
Reagan's First Term
Truth or Consequences: Cost Revelation and Regulation
Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy
Environmental Regulation and the U.S. Economy
The relationship between governmental environmental regulations and the economy is examined in this book. The authors consider the available data and models describing the sources of economic difficulties as they are affected by environmental policies. They also discuss the effects of economic conditions on regulatory initiatives. Elements of regulatory policy which may have adverse effects on the economy are discussed and alternative approaches …
Gross rents and market values: Testing the implications of Tiebout's hypothesis
Take the money and run: A theory of voting in local referenda
Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm
This paper takes issue with the Porter-van der Linde claim that traditional benefit-cost analysis is a fundamental misrepresentation of the environmental problem. They contend that stringent environmental measures induce innovative efforts leading to improvements in abatement and production technologies that offset the costs of the regulations. Drawing both on basic economic theory and existing data on control costs, the authors argue that such o…
The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation: A Statistical Analysis of EPA Decision Making
This paper examines the EPA's decision to cancel or continue the registration of cancer-causing pesticides that went through the special review process between 1975 and 1989. Despite claims to the contrary, the authors' analysis indicates that the EPA indeed balanced risks to health and the environment against benefits in regulating pesticides. Intervention by special interest groups was also important in the regulatory process. The authors' anal…
The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care
The contingent valuation method, wherein sample surveys are used to elicit individuals' willingness to pay for certain types of policies, is playing an important role in government decision-making. The most prominent applications are in the valuation of damages to natural resources from oil spills. But the contingent valuation method will be more important still if it is used to expand the range of impacts included in applied benefit-cost analyse…
Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditure
Valuing the benefits of health and safety regulation
Gross rents and market values: Testing the implications of Tiebout's hypothesis
Trouble in Happyville
Policy Watch: Economics and the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act, arguably the nation's most important environmental statute, is sure to be amended by the 101st Congress. In neither its current nor its likely new form does the Act feature much of a role for economic considerations. In fact, one approach that many economists would presumably favor-the balancing of benefits and costs in setting air quality or source discharge standards-has been found by courts to be inconsistent with the law (L…
Urban air quality and acute respiratory illness
Take the money and run: A theory of voting in local referenda
Natural Resources and the Environment, the Reagan Approach
Provides an assessment of the Reagan administration's rebalancing of environmental policy to place more emphasis on production and growth and less on conservation and protection of resources. Of considerable interest to those who wish to understand the changing natural resources and environment policy in this country
Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy
Environmental Regulation and the U.S. Economy
The relationship between governmental environmental regulations and the economy is examined in this book. The authors consider the available data and models describing the sources of economic difficulties as they are affected by environmental policies. They also discuss the effects of economic conditions on regulatory initiatives. Elements of regulatory policy which may have adverse effects on the economy are discussed and alternative approaches …
Environmental Problems and Policy: 2000-2050
The next 50 years will see more use of market-based tools for environmental protection. Regulatory authorities everywhere will require polluters to report emissions. Authority will leak away from national governments; some will be devolved to lower levels of government, but some will be lost to international bodies. Environmental conditions will continue to improve steadily in developed countries. The developing countries will be less fortunate; …
Economics and Health‐based Environmental Standards
Many federal laws dealing with environment, safety, and health contain language directing that certain kinds of standards be set on the basis of health evidence alone. That is, economic considerations are not to be taken into account in setting these standards. This paper presents arguments in defense of this position and then suggests why these arguments are not convincing. In other words, it makes the case that regulators should strive to balan…
The theory of environmental policy
Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditure
Gross rents and market values: Testing the implications of Tiebout's hypothesis
Take the money and run: A theory of voting in local referenda
Environmental Regulation and the U.S. Economy
The relationship between governmental environmental regulations and the economy is examined in this book. The authors consider the available data and models describing the sources of economic difficulties as they are affected by environmental policies. They also discuss the effects of economic conditions on regulatory initiatives. Elements of regulatory policy which may have adverse effects on the economy are discussed and alternative approaches …
Truth or Consequences: Cost Revelation and Regulation
Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy
Natural Resources and the Environment, the Reagan Approach
Provides an assessment of the Reagan administration's rebalancing of environmental policy to place more emphasis on production and growth and less on conservation and protection of resources. Of considerable interest to those who wish to understand the changing natural resources and environment policy in this country
Reagan's First Term
Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditure: Reply
Urban air quality and acute respiratory illness
Valuing the benefits of health and safety regulation
Should Workfare Be Mandatory? What Research Says
Insights
Insights
Policy Watch: Economics and the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act, arguably the nation's most important environmental statute, is sure to be amended by the 101st Congress. In neither its current nor its likely new form does the Act feature much of a role for economic considerations. In fact, one approach that many economists would presumably favor-the balancing of benefits and costs in setting air quality or source discharge standards-has been found by courts to be inconsistent with the law (L…
Insights
Trouble in Happyville
Insights
The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation: A Statistical Analysis of EPA Decision Making
This paper examines the EPA's decision to cancel or continue the registration of cancer-causing pesticides that went through the special review process between 1975 and 1989. Despite claims to the contrary, the authors' analysis indicates that the EPA indeed balanced risks to health and the environment against benefits in regulating pesticides. Intervention by special interest groups was also important in the regulatory process. The authors' anal…
The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care
The contingent valuation method, wherein sample surveys are used to elicit individuals' willingness to pay for certain types of policies, is playing an important role in government decision-making. The most prominent applications are in the valuation of damages to natural resources from oil spills. But the contingent valuation method will be more important still if it is used to expand the range of impacts included in applied benefit-cost analyse…
Economics and Health‐based Environmental Standards
Many federal laws dealing with environment, safety, and health contain language directing that certain kinds of standards be set on the basis of health evidence alone. That is, economic considerations are not to be taken into account in setting these standards. This paper presents arguments in defense of this position and then suggests why these arguments are not convincing. In other words, it makes the case that regulators should strive to balan…
Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm
This paper takes issue with the Porter-van der Linde claim that traditional benefit-cost analysis is a fundamental misrepresentation of the environmental problem. They contend that stringent environmental measures induce innovative efforts leading to improvements in abatement and production technologies that offset the costs of the regulations. Drawing both on basic economic theory and existing data on control costs, the authors argue that such o…
Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?
Benefit-cost analysis can play an important role in legislative and regulatory policy debates on protecting and improving health, safety, and the natural environment. Although formal benefit-cost analysis should not be viewed as either necessary or sufficient for designing sensible public policy, it can provide an exceptionally useful framework for consistently organizing disparate information, and in this way, it can greatly improve the process …
On Measuring Economic Values for Nature
This paper describes how economists ascribe values to the things people can choose. The economic value of an ecosystem function or service relates to the contribution it makes to human welfare, where human welfare is measured in terms of each individual's own assessment of well-being. After developing how this definition is used, the paper describes problems and opportunities for advancing the state-of-the-art in measuring economic values for nat…
Economics (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Public economics (7 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 works) · Natural resource economics (6 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works)