14.43J - Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies
14.43J/15.031J Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies (Spring 2012, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Richard Schmalensee. This course examines the choices and constraints regarding sources and uses of energy by households, firms, and governments through a number of frameworks to describe and explain behavior at various levels of aggregation. Examples include a wide range of countries, scope, settings, and analytical approaches. (from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 21 - U.S. Environment Policy |
This lecture focuses on the politics of regulation through a series of case discussion surrounding the EPA and setting emissions standards in response to air pollution, coal emissions, and acid rain.
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