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What is the most you would be willing to contribute in a one-time payment for the return of the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)?
If the environmental Kuznets curve held for individual households, what would the pollution-minimizing Gini coefficient be?
How do you think your decision to attend college will affect timing of any children you might have relative to if you ended your schooling after high school?
If you presided over an international organization and wanted to increase population doubling time in Bangladesh what specific type of policy would you suggest?
Draw a demand curve and a marginal cost curve for having children. Indicate the influence of each of the following on the graph and label shifted curves.
Draw two budget constraints, one reflecting a fixed fee for unlimited trash pickup and one reflecting a pay-per-throw program.
What was your least-sustainable activity over the last week? What costs and benefits did you consider when deciding to carry out that activity?
Identify a particular group that is likely to object to an NCD tax and explain the basis for their objection.
In what way is the threat of the giant panda becoming extinct an international problem? How might international cooperation lead to a solution?
What is the logic behind a policy of noncompliance with the demands of terrorists? What would happen if we gave some terrorists the policy changes they desired?
In what situations are command-andcontrol regulations most appropriate? Provide a specific example that is not from this book.
how commandand-control policies, including the Endangered Species Act and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, combined with market incentives.
Discuss the combination of incentives that the source of this problem will face and how you feel they would respond to the incentives. Please be specific.
Discuss the company's incentives for efficient behavior under the ChemsAreUs is risk neutral and faces no threat from activists conditions.
List three common-property resources not discussed in this chapter to which the models explained in the chapter could be applied.
How would increase in the demand for real estate affect the socially optimal rotation intervals for trees?
Given the assumptions of Hotelling's rule and constant extraction costs, what is the total value of a stock of 1 million dry long ton units of extractable iron.
What solutions to the mounting municipal solid waste problem have been discussed or applied in your area?
Write a brief description of major policy reforms on competition in the NHS. Use diagrams to support your arguments.
Explain how more recent research tried to verify the H-O model. Explain the results of these more recent empirical tests.
Explain what will happen to unemployment using both classical and Keynesian reasoning.
Compute the average variable cost, average cost, and marginal cost for each function. Discuss the relationship between average variable cost and average cost.
Briefly, you are to research and show how these apply to your scenario: GDP growth rate , the business cycle, unemployment, and inflation and fiscal policy.
How has the World Wide Web allowed supported the establishment and functioning of these businesses?
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of litigation and regulation as deterrents to environmental wrongdoing.