Exercising Property Rights to Pollute: Do Cancer Risks and Politics Affect Plant Emission Reductions?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-124

  Hamilton, James T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coase Theorem; Collective action; Pollution reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033460833     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007877728961     Document Type: Article

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