Etymology: economics

Etymology: environment

Classical economists: who and what?

Neoclassical economics: who and what?

Early days of environmental economics: Who and what?

Main sources for market failures that are related to environmental economics

Definition of externality

Public goods: different types

Tragedy of the commons

Prisonners dilemma

Free-riding link to environment

Holy triptych of environmental economics

Coase RIP and <3 again

Pigovian tax

How to define value

Services provided by the environment

From biology/ecology to valuation : 5 steps

Total economic Value (TEV)

Different types of value from use to non-use.

Valuation methods (

Hedonic princing (what, + and -)

Travel cost method

Contingent valuation

Biases in CVM

Impact pathway method

CBA

Problem with CBA

Stern review

Stern vs Nordhaus

Rebound effect

Cartesian Dualism

Newtono-cartesian model

Empirical evidence on Homo Oeconomicus

Evolutionary economics

Meso-level

Lock-in concept

Kenneth Boulding quote (hint: it's stupid!)

Happy Planet Index equation

Relationship between HPI et GDP

Threshold hypothesis

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)

Empirical ISEW values

Decoupling

Comparison of costs per grid connection (electricity)

Steps for a survey/report

What do niggas consume in africa?

Average # of energy sources in HH

top 5 energy sources

What are the energy needs of HH?

Use of energy?

Willingness to pay for electricity

Mahogany, the full story

Importance of institutions in a well functioning market

Types of institutions

5 Problems that institutions can solve

Informational problems

Institutional solutions to informational problems

Hold- Up problem

Commitment problem

Cooperation problem

Coordination problem.

Why do inefficient institutions persist?

The Functionalist Fallacy

What is a meta analysis?

Rain and civil war

Land ownership distribution and GINI

5 forms of ownership and tenancy contracts

Farmer ownership

Communal ownership

Fixed Land Rental

Sharecropping

Labor contracts

Studies in Ghana about land ownership

Sharecropping compared to private farms

Sharecropping compared to fixed rental contracts

Plantations and slave labor

Plantations and privately owned family farms

Historical results of land reform

Factors affecting onset of civil war

Greed Model

Grievance Model

Economic Effects of conflicts

Resource curse

Impact of resource abundance on countries

Why negative effects of natural resource abundance?

Dutch disease

Impact of volatility in income

Weak states and natural resource management

Natural resources and risk of civil war

How to manage natural resource abundance