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"Pricing for Pollution is fast approaching the status of a classic. When published in 1975 it set out in cogent and lucid terms the case for “charging” for pollution as a means of environmental regulation. Dr Beckerman had then argued the case as a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. His approach to the control of the pollution was ignored, as was the problem itself.
…In the light of the increased concern over the environment the IEA has taken the opportunity to re-publish Dr Beckerman’s classic analysis of charging for pollution."

The book provides a significant contribution to the Green Debate by introducing a new generation of students, scholars and policy-makers to the timeless economic principles governing regulation.

Wilfred Beckerman

Wilfred Beckerman was born in 1925 and, after service in the Royal Navy 1943–46, graduated from Cambridge University in 1948 (Ph.D. in 1951). He is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and an Honorary Visiting Professor of Economics at University College London, where he held the Chair in Political Economy from 1969–1975. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970–73, and a member of the Council and the Executive Committee of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, 1972–1995. He has published several books, and numerous articles in The Economic Journal, Economica, Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and other journals. He has been a Visiting Professor at various Universities in France and the USA, and a consultant to the World Bank, the UN, the OECD and the ILO. He is the author of A Poverty of Reason: Economic Growth and Sustainable Development.