TY - BOOK AU - Hite, James C., AU - Macaulay,Hugh H. TI - The Economics of Environmental Quality AV - HC79.E5 E28 U1 - 301.31'0973 PY - 1972///] CY - Washington PB - American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research KW - Environmental Policy KW - Pollution N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - The authors use the term environmental quality to refer to the conditions associated with those resources that have not been assigned to the market for allocation. Though the focus is on air and water quality, an inclusion of conditions of crowding, visual stimuli, and odors within the same framework could be just as well. First, in an introduction to the nature of the problem, the subject is put in a perspective of time and place. Subsequent chapters provide an economic analysis of the problem, present discussions of environmental demand, and analyze such topics as the conflict between economic development and environmental quality, legal solutions to the problem, and the uses and effects of taxes and subsidies as means for ameliorating conflict over environmental quality ER -