The Curious Treatment of the Coase Theorem in the Environmental Economics Literature, 1960–1979
The Curious Treatment of the Coase Theorem in the Environmental Economics Literature, 1960–1979
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1960-1979 年环境经济学文献中对科斯定理的奇怪处理
DOI：
10.1093/reep/ret020
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Steven G. Medema
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作者：
Steven G. Medema
本文考察了环境经济学中科斯定理的头20年的历史，在此期间，科斯定理的有效性得到了广泛的承认，但它对环境问题的经济分析的相关性几乎被普遍忽视。在文献中反复声称该定理是无关紧要的，并对其不屑一顾，这就提出了一个问题，为什么环境经济学家最初对科斯定理如此感兴趣。这里提供了几种解释，包括外部性理论中的环境经济理论的根源，经济学家对该定理提出的有趣和具有挑战性的理论难题的迷恋，以及在环境经济学领域内外对该定理的讨论中渗透的规范性和思想性的推动力。(JEL：B20、D62、K32、Q50、R11)
This article examines the first two decades of the history of the Coase theorem in environmental economics, a period during which the theorem’s validity was widely acknowledged but its relevance for economic analysis of environmental issues was almost universally dismissed. The repeated claims of the theorem’s irrelevance and its dismissive treatment in the literature raise the question of why environmental economists were so interested in the Coase theorem in the first place. Several explanations are offered here including the roots of environmental economic theory in the theory of externalities, economists’ fascination with the interesting and challenging theoretical puzzle posed by the theorem, and the normative and ideological thrust that permeated discussions of the theorem, both within and outside the field of environmental economics. (JEL: B20, D62, K32, Q50, R11)