MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4246283731 · doi:10.11647/obp.0193.10

Environmental Economics

2020· book-chapter· en· W4246283731 on OpenAlex
Don Fullerton

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicClimate Change Policy and Economics
Canadian institutionsAlberta Oil Sands Technology and Research AuthorityUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPigou effectCoase theoremEconomicsEnvironmental pollutionPublic economicsNatural resource economicsLaw and economicsTransaction costMacroeconomicsEnvironmental protectionMicroeconomicsEnvironmental science

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Environmental economics may sound like an oxymoron to those who believe that saving the environment must be based on a moral, rather than financial, imperative. This chapter argues otherwise. Here, Fullerton suggests that by identifying the market failures responsible for the production of pollution, and by helping to design policy proposals that maximize cost-effectiveness, economics can be a powerful tool for environmental protection. Before the first Earth Day in 1970, ‘environmental economics’ did not yet exist, per se, although individual economists had certainly considered pollution issues. Fullerton explores the ideas and legacies of the early pioneers (Pigou, Coase, Hardin, Dales, Baumol, Oates, Weitzman), and discusses the relationship between these ideas and environmental policies enacted (such as the 1990 US Clean Air Act Amendments, that initiated sulfur dioxide permit trading and thus largely eliminated the problem of acid rain). In this chapter, Fullerton not only explores the history of environmental economics, but discusses which policies (e.g. taxation and permitting) are more suited for different kinds and degrees of pollution. The discipline of environmental economics – which, in recent years, has incorporated new theoretical ideas, and has become more empirically driven by advances in ‘big data’ – has a role to play in tackling many of the environmental issues we face today, from contaminated water, to endangered species.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.606
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0400.020

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.100
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.118 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it