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Saving energy, growing jobs : how environmental protection promotes economic growth, profitability, innovation, and competition / David B. Goldstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Bay Tree Pub., c2007.Description: xlii, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0972002162 (alk. paper)
  • 9780972002165 (alk. paper)
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Contents:
Foreword / by Olympia J. Snowe -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Energy efficiency and the economy -- The critical role of energy efficiency in the economy -- Energy use reduction -- Environmental policies generate cost reductions -- Opposition to energy efficiency -- Establish more competitive markets -- Direct success in energy efficiency -- Early resistance to energy efficiency -- The refrigerator story -- Other energy-efficiency opportunities -- How far can we go with efficiency? -- Enhanced innovation--energy efficiency's unexpected success -- Nonenergy benefits -- Innovation, process improvement, and cost reduction -- Overcoming barriers to innovation -- National economic development policy and the environment -- Environmental protection, economic barriers, and economic development -- Economic fundamentalism--the use of economics as a religion rather than a science -- What is economic fundamentalism? -- How economic theory serves as a political force -- How critical assumptions of economic theory are violated in practice -- The need for regulation -- How markets actually work -- Lessons from California's failed experiment in "free markets" for electricity -- The road to failure -- What actually happened--myth versus reality -- The consequences of the restructuring experiment -- The true causes of the California energy crisis -- How markets fail -- What prevents expected results -- Market barriers -- Market failures -- Human failures -- Institutional failures: trade associations and the politics of environmental protection -- Factors for market success -- The politics of environmentalism -- Myths of the anti-environmentalists -- The myth of independent objective analysis -- The myths about environmentalists -- The consequences of the anti-environmentalist myth -- Myths of the environmentalists -- The greedy corporation myth -- The "bad people" myth -- The "small is beautiful" myth -- Legitimate concerns of business and environmental
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The idea that we must choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy is a myth, says David Goldstein. Not only do well-conceived environmental regulations create more jobs, in the long run they contribute to more efficient designs and less expensive products. Standing between us and a cleaner, more prosperous society is the resistance of economic incumbents and a misplaced ideological opposition to any kind of regulation, even though it might prove beneficial.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-325) and index.

Foreword / by Olympia J. Snowe -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Energy efficiency and the economy -- The critical role of energy efficiency in the economy -- Energy use reduction -- Environmental policies generate cost reductions -- Opposition to energy efficiency -- Establish more competitive markets -- Direct success in energy efficiency -- Early resistance to energy efficiency -- The refrigerator story -- Other energy-efficiency opportunities -- How far can we go with efficiency? -- Enhanced innovation--energy efficiency's unexpected success -- Nonenergy benefits -- Innovation, process improvement, and cost reduction -- Overcoming barriers to innovation -- National economic development policy and the environment -- Environmental protection, economic barriers, and economic development -- Economic fundamentalism--the use of economics as a religion rather than a science -- What is economic fundamentalism? -- How economic theory serves as a political force -- How critical assumptions of economic theory are violated in practice -- The need for regulation -- How markets actually work -- Lessons from California's failed experiment in "free markets" for electricity -- The road to failure -- What actually happened--myth versus reality -- The consequences of the restructuring experiment -- The true causes of the California energy crisis -- How markets fail -- What prevents expected results -- Market barriers -- Market failures -- Human failures -- Institutional failures: trade associations and the politics of environmental protection -- Factors for market success -- The politics of environmentalism -- Myths of the anti-environmentalists -- The myth of independent objective analysis -- The myths about environmentalists -- The consequences of the anti-environmentalist myth -- Myths of the environmentalists -- The greedy corporation myth -- The "bad people" myth -- The "small is beautiful" myth -- Legitimate concerns of business and environmental

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