Economics, Game Theory and International Environmental Agreements: The Ca' Foscari Lectures: 7 - Rilegato

Tulkens, Henry

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ISBN 10: 9813141220 ISBN 13: 9789813141223

Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2019

Riassunto

Environmental issues have become increasingly pressing in recent years. The science and management of environmental problems is a vast area, comprising both the natural and social sciences, and the multidisciplinary links often make these issues challenging to comprehend.Economics, Game Theory and International Environmental Agreements: The Ca' Foscari Lectures aims to introduce students to the multidimensional character of international environmental problems in general, and climate change in particular. Ecology, economics, game theory and diplomacy are called upon and brought together in the common framework of a basic mathematical model. Within that framework, and using tools from these four disciplines, the book develops a theory that aims to explain and promote cooperation in international environmental affairs.Other books on the topic tend to be research-oriented volumes of various papers. However, Economics, Game Theory and International Environmental Agreements: The Ca' Foscari Lectures is the only book that offers a reasonably sized synthesis of the multidimensional societal problems of transfrontier pollution, particularly of climate change. It seeks to use mathematical modeling and game theory to demonstrate and examine these environmental issues in an accessible fashion. This book would be a very useful tool for readers interested in understanding the link between ecology and economics, and the connection between economics and institutional decision-making.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Henry Tulkens has been teaching Political Economy, Public Economics and Economic Dynamics at Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. His research is conducted at CORE (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics), an interdisciplinary research institution within the university. Professor Tulkens received his higher education successively at the universities of Leuven, where he studied law, and of Louvain, where he obtained the doctorate in economics and was appointed in 1968. He has held visiting positions at various universities, including Paris I, Princeton, Stanford, and was a consultant to the IMF, the EU and various governmental agencies. From 1997 to 2002, he was also Secretary of the European Economic Association.

His research interests and publications bear mostly upon three themes: international aspects of environmental economics, as a field of application of game theory to public goods and externalities; fiscal competition and the foundations of federalism; and public enterprise economics.

Several of his publications have been assembled in Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition: 22 selected papers in public economics by Henry Tulkens, edited and introduced by Parkash Chander, Jacques Drèze, C Knox Lovell and Jack Mintz, Springer, Boston 2006 (588 pp). More recently, he edited with Roger Guesnerie The Design of Climate Policy, CESifo Seminar Series, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9813141220
• ISBN 13: 9789813141223
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile