This article surveys selected contributions of economics to the literature on water pollution
and the regulation of water quality. While not a comprehensive review, the article highlights …

Accepting a fixed trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness
unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress. Studies finding high …

The need for regulation to protect the environment gets widespread but grudging
acceptance: widespread because everyone wants a liveable planet, grudging because of …

" Management of technology (MOT) is the crossroads at which technological strategy meets
business strategy to create new business opportunities. Managing Technological …

Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate
crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative …

In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the
economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in handling a diverse range of …

In Tangled Loyalties, Susan P. Shapiro charts a journey across the state of Illinois. To
explore the role of conflict-of-interest in the private practice of law she looks at a wide variety …

The cleanup of hazardous waste sites under the US Environmental Protection Agency's
Superfund program is governed by a number of legislative and regulatory constraints …

This paper considers a model of probabilistic law enforcement in which a violator can
undertake remediation that reduces the harm caused. In an optimal regime, violators are …

This paper examines whether strict liability imposed on polluters has reduced uncontrolled
releases of toxics into the environment. We fit regressions relating spills of selected …