Table of Contents:

• Population, Pop. Growth, and Sustainability
  
• Lauderdale's Paradox
  
• Exchange Value
  
• Population Growth: Causes, Consequences
  
• Demographic Transition: Stage 1
  
• Demographic Transition: Stage 2
  
• Demographic Transition: Stage 3
  
• Diagram: Demographic Transition
  
• Developing Countries: Stage 2
  
• Erlich: Critique of Demographic Transition Theory
  
• Forecast Population Growth
  
• Population and the Environment
  
• Population and Resource Exhaustion
  
• Population and Urban Squalor
  
• China's Population Program
  
• Transferrable Quota Scheme
  
• UN Population Forecasts
  
• Boserup Hypothesis
  
• Taxes and Incentives
  
• More on Taxes and Incentives
  
• More on Taxes and Incentives
  
• Even More on Taxes and Incentives
  
• Ecological Tax Reform
  
• Barriers to Ecological Tax Reform
  
• Thinking Long Term: Discounting
  
• Opporutnity Cost of Loaned Funds
  
• Present Discounted Value
  
• Relationship Between Discount Rates and Environmentally Friendly Investments
  
• Example: Discounting
  
• Solution to Example
  
• Cost Savings in Example
  
• Discount Rates and Sustainability
  
• Opportunity Cost of Capital
  
• Social Rate of Time Preference
  
• Components of Social Rate: Growth Discounting
  
• More on Growth Discounting
  
• Even More on Growth Discounting
  
• Components of Social Rate: Pure Rate of Time Preference
  
• Is Dynamically Efficient Policy Consistent With Sustainability?
  
• Example: Maxxam and Headwaters Forest
  
• Time Inconsistency Problem
  
• Avoiding Time Inconsistency Problem