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Fat Tails, Plastic Bags, and Barnacles: Environmental Economics Decoded
Author(s) -
Stolper Samuel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12084
Subject(s) - citation , government (linguistics) , library science , public policy , computer science , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics
656 Public Administration Review • July | August 2013 Amid all this, Wagner’s main argument is that economic logic should be the foundation of environmental policy making. To that end, the book feels like something of a whirlwind: the building blocks of his argument are strewn across ten chapters that jump from story to story but do not seem to build on each other. And yet the ultimate point remains clear: smart economics can save the (natural) world.