Saving energy, growing jobs : how environmental protection promotes economic growth, profitability, innovation, and competition /
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Berkeley, Calif. :
Bay Tree Pub.,
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Table of 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 interests
- Business's concerns about new regulation
- Reasons why business distrusts environmentalists
- Environmentalists' concerns about business
- The need for better communication
- What truly motivates anti-environmentalists
- A story of energy efficiency and global warming
- The influence of economic and ideological incumbency
- Who writes the regulations
- Government versus private-sector regulation
- Well-designed environmental policies
- Current environmental policies
- Future environmental policies
- Where do we go from here?
- Environmental policy promotes economic growth
- Current barriers to environmental policies
- How to transform the political debate
- Incentives and regulation
- Appendix: Myths and realities in California's experiment in electricity
- Myth 1: Hugh growth of demand for electricity
- Myth 2: Environmentalists and state bureaucrats blocked new power plant construction
- Myth 3: Greedy utilities used restructuring as a plot
- Myth 4: The flaws of restructuring were clear to all
- Myth 5: Restructuring did not go far enough
- Myth 6: The "genius of the market" will solve everything
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.