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    • An Evaluation of U.S. Government Aid to India, June 1964
    • Environmentally Responsible Energy Pricing, 1993
    • The United States Experience with Economic Incentives to Control Environmental Pollution 1992
    • Environmental Investments, The Cost of a Clean Environment, A Summary, 1990
    • Environmental Investments, Cost of a Clean Environment, Report by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Congress of the United States, 1991
    • Implementation and Utilization of Geoengineering for Global Climate Change Control, 2007
    • Mr. Udall’s Analysis, An Unrepentant Rejoinder
    • Risky Gamble
    • Vehicle Safety, Why the Market Did Not Encourage It and How It Might be Made to Do So, 1968
    • Why a Different Approach Is Required if Global Climate Change Is to Be Controlled Efficiently or Even at All
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  1. The Increasing Need for Research on Geoengineering Approaches to Reducing Potential Global Cooling, in Yu. A. Izrael, A. G. Ryaboshapko, and S. A. Gromov, editors, Investigation of Possibilities of Climate Stabilization Using New Technologies, Proceedings of International Scientific Conference, “Problems of Adaptation to Climate Change” (Moscow, 7–9 November 2011), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2012, pp. 24-34.

  2. A Multidisciplinary, Science-Based Approach to the Economics of Climate Change, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2011, April 1, 2011, pp. 985-1031.

  3. EPA: The Administration’s High Risk but Pivotal Climate Gamble, paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois, May 17, 2010. Designed to be printed double-sided. PDF file size is 119KB. The briefing slides used in the presentation can be found here.

  4. Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, unpublished report prepared for the US Environmental Protection Agency but not representing the Agency's views, final version dated March 16, 2009. Designed to be printed double-sided. PDF file size is 4MB. Press coverage includes the following: CBSNews, NYTimes, Wall Street Journal news and opinion, and London Telegraph. For additional information see here and for commentary on a September NYTimes story see here. For a thorough Congressional report dealing with the EPA’s Endangerment finding and the release of these comments see here. For a May 2010 Congressional update see here.

  5. Why a Different Approach Is Required if Global Climate Change Is to Be Controlled Efficiently or Even at All, Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol. 32, Issue 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 685-757. Abstract
  6. Risky Gamble, Environmental Forum, Vol. 24, No. 5, September/October, 2007, pp. 42-7. Abstract
  7. Global Climate Change Control: Is There a Better Strategy than Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, No. 6, June, 2007, pp. 1401-97 Abstract

  8. Implementation and Utilization of Geoengineering for Global Climate Change Control, Sustainable Development Law and Policy , Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter, 2007, pp. 56-58. Abstract
  9. The New Challenge to Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Sound Is the Opponents' Empirical Case? Regulation, Fall 2005, pp. 18-23.
  10. Measures of Mortality Risks (with W. Kip Viscusi and John K. Hakes), 1997 Abstract Full Text: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 14, No. 3, May/June, 1997, pp. 213-33. Earlier report to EPA.
  11. Cost Savings from the Use of Market Incentives for Pollution Control (with Robert C. Anderson, Albert M. McGartland, and Jennifer B. Weinberger), 1997, in Richard F. Kosobud and Jennifer M. Zimmerman (editors), Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy: Regulatory Innovations to the Fore, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1997, pp. 15-46.
  12. EPA Comments on Proposed NOAA/DOI Regulations on Natural Resource Damage Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., October, 1994. Abstract:
  13. Environmentally Responsible Energy Pricing (with W. Kip Viscusi, Wesley A. Magat, and Mark Dreyfus), 1994. Abstract. Full text: Energy Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, April, pp. 23-42. An earlier version of the report is available here. The full report on which both are based can be found here.
  14. The United States Experience with Economic Incentives to Control Environmental Pollution, Report No. 230-R-92-001, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., July, 1992. Abstract.
  15. Environmental Investments: The Cost of Cleaning Up (with Paul F. Scodari and Don H. Garner), 1991. Full text: Environment, Vol. 34, No. 2, March, pp. 12-45.
  16. Environmental Investments: The Cost of a Clean Environment, A Summary (with the assistance of the Environmental Law Institute), 1990, Report No. EPA-230-90-084, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., December. Abstract
  17. Environmental Investments: The Cost of a Clean Environment, Report of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Congress of the United States, 1990, Report No. EPA-230-90-083, November. Republished with previous entry by Island Press, Washington, D.C. and Covelo, CA, 1991. Abstract
  18. “Introduction,” in Thomas D. Crocker (editor), in Economic Perspectives on Acid Rain Control, Butterworth, Stoneham, MA, 1984.
  19. Benefits of Pollution Control, March 1974. Full text: Philip L. White and Diane Roberts (editors), Environmental Quality and Food Supply, Futura Publishing Company, Mt. Kisco, New York, pp. 39-47.
  20. The Grand Canyon Controversy; or, How Reclamation Justifies the Unjustifiable, 1973. Full text: in Alain C. Enthoven and A. Myrick Freeman (editors), Pollution, Resources, and the Environment, W. W. Norton, New York, 1973, pp. 263-270. Absract and order info.
  21. Environmental Problems: Their Causes, Cures and Evoluton Using Southern California Smog as an Example (with George Kocher), Report R-640-CC/RC,The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, May, 1971. Abstract and order info.
  22. Water Resources Development in an Environmentally-Conscious Era, 1971. Full text: Water Resources Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 4, April, 1971, pp. 221-223. Reprinted in Charles J. Meyers and A. Dan Tarlock (editors), Selected Legal and Economic Aspects of Environmental Protection, Foundation Press, Mineola, New York, 1971, pp. 53-56.
  23. Marginal Cost Pricing of Airport Runway Capacity (with R. E. Park), 1970. Full text: American Economic Review, Vol. LX, No. 3, June, ppl. 310-9. Reprinted in Peter Forsyth, Kenneth Button, and Peter Nijkamp (editors), Air Transport Classics in Transport Analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA, 2002, pp. 491-5000. Abstract and order info.
  24. A Model of Long Delays at Busy Airports (with R. E. Park), 1970, Journal of Transport Economcis and Policy, Vol. IV, No. 1, January, pp. 37-62. Abstract and order info.
  25. The Efficient Use of Airport Runway Capacity in a Time of Scarcity (with R. E. Park), 1969, Report R-5807-PA, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, August. Abstract and order info.
  26. Alternative Development Strategies for Air Transportation in the New York Region, 1970-1980 (with H. S. Campbell, S. L. Katten, T. F. Kirkwood, D. M. Landi, R. E. Park, L. Rounnau, and A. J. Rolfe), 1969, Report RM-5815-PA, The RAND Corporation, August. Abstract and order info.
  27. An Economic Re-Evaluation of the Proposed Los Angeles Rapid Transit System (with Martin Wohl), 1968, Paper P-3918, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Abstract and order info
  28. The Economics of Transport Development, 1968, in United Nations Development Programme, Fund of the United Nations for the Development of West Irian, A Design for Develop­ment in West Irian, United Nations, New York, pp. 162-170.
  29. The Grand Canyon Controversy: Lessons for Federal Cost-Benefit Practices, 1968,. Full text: Land Economics, Volume XLIV, No. 2, May, pp. 219-227. Reprinted in Charles J. Meyers and A. Dan Tarlock (eds.), Water Resource Management, Foundation Press, Mineola, New York, 1971, pp. 459-468. Earlier version printed in U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Central Arizona Project, Hearings before Subcommittee, 90th Congress, 1st Session, May 2-5, 1967, pp. 507-514. Also in House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Colorado River Basin Project, Hearings before Subcommittee, 90th Congress, 1st Session, March 13-17, 1967, pp. 611-618. Abstract and order info.
  30. Vehicle Safety: Why the Market Did Not Encourage It and How It Might Be Made To Do So, 1968, Report RM-5634-DOT, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, April. Abstract.
  31. Indian Transportation: A Sectoral Approach to Developmental Constraints, 1967, The Journal of Development Studies, July, pp. 414-439. Abstract and order info.
  32. Project versus Program Aid: From the Donor's Viewpoint, 1967, The Economic Journal, March, pp. 48-58. Reprinted in Stephen Spiegelglas and Charles J. Welsh (ed.), Economic Develop­ment: Challenge and Promise, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1970, pp. 350-359. Also in Gustav Ranis (ed.), The United States and the Developing Economies, Revised Edition, W. W. Norton, New York, 1973, pp. 158-171. Abstract and order info.
  33. The Grand Canyon Controversy–1967: Further Economic Comparisons of Nuclear Alternatives” (with William E. Hoehn), Senate Hearings, op. cit., pp. 489-497 and House Hearings, pp. 619-625. Abstract and order info.
  34. Is the Marble Canyon Project Economically Justified? (with William E. Hoehn) 1967, printed in U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Lower Colorado River Basin Project, Hearings before Subcommittee, Part II, May 9-18, pp. 1497-1512. Abstract and order info.
  35. Mr. Udall's ‘Analysis’: An Unrepentant Rejoinder (with William E. Hoehn), 1966, ibid., pp. 1521-1535. Abstract
  36. Review of "Aspects of Economic Development and Policy" by B. K. Madon, American Economic Review, September, pp. 900-902.
  37. A Possible U.S. Policy towards Indian Transportation: An Illustration of Improved Sectoral Policies, 1965, Report RM-4379-AID, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, June. Abstract and order info.
  38. An Evaluation of U.S. Government Aid to India, June 1964 (partial text through Chapter 2). Abstract
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