Customer Reviews

Environmental Economics and Policy (4th Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

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This book's strength is that it covers many important topics in an accessible fashion. However, the 2004 copyright date is very misleading. Many parts of the text, examples, and references were current as of 1980, i.e., before the birth of most students who are using the book! The many precise dollar amounts of costs and benefits rarely indicate whether the reference is to, say, 1975 dollars or 1992 dollars. Throughout the book are phrases like "recently" and "now" that actually refer to developments decades ago.

The author is a respected scholar in the field. In my view he should be embarrassed to supply a "new" edition as hopelessly dated as this one. Readers can save money by buying a used copy of an older edition--they won't be missing much.

I bought it for school, and it was better than listening to my teacher, but it doesn't tell you what pages key words are found on and some of the information is very spaced out and hard to follow

this was a really good experience.... stress free purchase. I ordered on a Wednesday, and it arrived on a Friday, provided that I did order from an IN-State seller. there was no damage to the item; and the price of a new one was better than the used prices. I'm just happy I got such a good deal.