Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list

Copeland, B. R. and Taylor, M. S. (2009). : "Trade, tragedy, and the commons. American Economic Review, 99(3):725–49." in Link.

Førsund, F. : "Hydropower economics. Memorandum No 30/2005 Department of economics, University of Oslo." in Link.

Hoel, M.: "Resource Extraction, Uncertainty and Learning" in Bell Journal of Economics 9, 1978a. pp. 642-645. Link.

Hoel, M.: "Consumption Growth in an Economy with Natural Resources and Zero Investments" in Department of Economics, University of Oslo. Memorandum. 1978b. Link.

Hoel, M.: "Carbon taxes and the green paradox. " in R. Hahn and A. Ulph (eds.) (forthcoming): Climate Change and Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling, 2011. Oxford University Press. Link.

Hoel, M. and S. Kverndokk: "Depletion of Fossil Fuels and the Impacts of Global Warming" in Resource and Energy Economics 18, 1996. pp. 115-136. Link.

Perman, R., Y. Ma, J. McGilvray and M. Common: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Third Ed. . Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd. Chapters 1-4, 6.9, 14, 15, 16.4, 17, 18.

Perman et al. Fourth edition: Natural resource and environmental economics, 2011. Pearson education Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-321-41753-4. Chapters 1-3, 5.9,14-15, 16.4, 17-18.

Samuelson, P. A. (1976). : "Economics of forestry in an evolving society. Economic Inquiry, 14(4):466–92. " in Link.

van der Ploeg, F. (2010). : "Voracious transformation of a common natural resource into productive capital. International Economic Review,51(2):365–381. " in Link.

Supplementary/additional reading list

Andersen, P: On rent of fishing grounds, 1983. A translation of J. Warming's 1911 article, with an introduction: History of Political Economy 15 (3), pp. 391-396. K.

Barbier, E. B. and Burgess, J. C.: "The economics of tropical deforestation" in Journal of Economic Surveys, 15(3), 2001. pp. 413–433..

Brunnschweiler, C. N. and Bulte, E. H.: "The resource curse revisited and revised: A tale of paradoxes and red herrings." in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55(3), 2008. pp. 248–264.

Dixit, A. et al.: "On Hartwick's Rule for Regular Maximin Paths of Capital Accumulation and Resource Depletion" in Review of Economic Studies 48, 1980. pp. 551-556.

Førsund, FR: Hydropower Economics, 2007. Springer Science & Media. ISBN: -13:978-0-387-73026-4. Chapters1-3, 5.

Hotelling, H: The economics of exhaustible resources, Journal of Political Economy 39 (2).

Salant, S.: "Exhaustible resources and industrial structure: a Nash-Cournot approach to the world oil market" in Journal of Political Economy, 1979.

Solow, R.M: On the intergenerational allocation of natural resources, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 88 (1). K.

van der Ploeg, F. and Poelhekke, S. (2010). : "The pungent smell of “red herrings”: Subsoil assets, rents, volatilityand the resource curse. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 60(1):44 – 55" in

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