Environmental Protection and Optimal Taxation
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This paper brings together applied analysis under simplifying assumption and new research on principles for environmental protection when government is costly. The cost effectiveness analysisthe ranking in the control cost curveapplies under optimal taxation in the more general case, but the optimal environmental quality is adjusted.
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