Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy
- ISBN-10
- 1610914023
- ISBN-13
- 9781610914024
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Author
- Norman Myers
Description
Fund , Paying for Pollution : How Taxpayers Subsidize Dangerous and Polluting Energy Programs ( A Green Scissors Report ) ( Washington , D.C .: Friends of the Earth , 2000 ) . 7. Roodman , Natural Wealth of Nations . 8.
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- 2001-01-01
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- 1998
- 230 pages
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