首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Protection of the environment is based on a principle that is beginning to be used in the field of jurisprudence. The principle
Protection of the environment is based on a principle that is beginning to be used in the field of jurisprudence. The principle
admin
2013-01-12
19
问题
Protection of the environment is based on a principle that is beginning to be used in the field of jurisprudence. The principle has to do with property rights. The idea is that we all have a property right in the air and water around us. If a business firm pollutes that air or water, their act in so doing constitutes damage to something we own—just as if the firm had dropped a smoke bomb down our chimney. Our legal ease against such a firm is then baaed on the complaint that we deserve compensation for an infringement of our right to use our private property as we please ( provided we don’ t interfere with the same rights of a neighbor). Assuming we win the case, the offending firm then has to pay us for damaging our property—the air or water we "own".
And so protection of the environment, specifically the control of pollution, now rests on the idea that we, as members of the public, share a right to clean air and water and to the good health that clean air and water quality can give us. But, as always, costs and benefits are involved in any decision to improve the environment.
In an Adam Smithian, self-interested world, entrepreneurs or businessmen are expected to increase their profits as much as possible. The natural way to do this is to produce at the lowest possible cost. But at whose cost? It is obviously cheaper for entrepreneurs to dump waste into the nearest stream or into the atmosphere than to truck it to some waste disposal facility or to filter it as it comes out of smokestacks. Therefore, what may be sensible for entrepreneurs may not be desirable for the community.
Here is a classic trade-off: When the government intervenes to force entrepreneurs to stop polluting, entrepreneurs have to adopt more expensive means of production or waste disposal. Inevitably, they will charge higher prices, and, given no change in demand, the quantity demanded will drop and workers will be laid off. The trade-off is therefore cleaner air and water or more unemployment. This is how economists view this problem.
Some economists maintain that______.
选项
A、we will either sacrifice employment for cleaner environment or vice versa
B、there is no compromise between the government and entrepreneurs or between the latter and the community
C、the entrepreneurs will need more workers to clean up air and water under the pressure of the government
D、pollution control will inevitably result in change in demand on the market
答案
A
解析
最后一段结尾部分,作者阐述了一些经济学家对污染问题的看法:the trade-off is therefore cleaner air and water or more unemployment"交易是要么环境洁净,失业率增加,要么是环境污染,工作正常”,选项A正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Nt9O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Threeyears______beforehereturnedhomefromtheUnitedStates.
(66)Prosperousalumnihelpedmake2006arecordedfund-raisingyearforcollegesanduniversities,whichhauledin$28billion
Mostofusfindtheforgettingeasier,butmaybeweshouldworkontheforgivingpart."Holdingontohurtsandnursinggrudges
Thisreportexaminesthesocialandeconomicdevelopmentpoliciesenactedbythreecountriesto______aresurgenceofterrorism
Thechairwasamovablewonder,helovedthefeelingofpowerandstrengthitgavehimforsolittle______.
Researcherswhorefusetosharedatawithothersmay【31】otherstowithholdresultsfromthem,【32】astudybyhealth-policyanalys
Inthatcountry,apersonwhomarriesbeforelegalagemusthaveaparent’s______toobtainalicense.
Theamendments(of)thelawsonpatent,trademarkandcopyright(haveenhanced)protectionof(intellectualproperty)rightsand
Thegreatesttruthsareperhapsthosewhich,beingsimpleinthemselves,______alargeandcomplexbodyofknowledge.
Agoodmodernnewspaperisanextraordinarypieceofreading.Itisremarkablefirstforwhatitcontains:therangeofnewsfro
随机试题
近代中国的社会性质是( )
A.调节pHB.填充剂C.调节渗透压D.稳定剂E.抑菌剂注射用辅酶A的无菌冻干制剂中加入下列物质其作用是甘露醇
合伙企业对合伙人执行合伙企业事务以及对外代表合伙企业权利的限制,不得对抗不知情的( )。
因果联想是指人们对事物发展变化结果的经验性判断和想象,触发物与联想物之间存在一定的因果关系。根据上述定义,下列属于因果联想的是:
甲、乙、丙三人打羽毛球,每一局由两人上场,另一人做裁判。第一局抽签决定裁判,往后每一局的比赛在上一局的胜者和上一局的裁判之间进行。打了若干场之后,甲胜了10局,而乙和丙各负了8局,则他们至少打了()局。
A.维生素A缺乏症B.维生素C缺乏症C.维生素B2缺乏症D.维生素B3缺乏症E.烟酸缺乏症牙龈炎、牙龈出血、毛细血管脆性试验阳性是哪种疾病的表现()。
在考生文件夹中新建一个FSA.TXT文件。
WonTechInternationalannouncedtodaythatitslong-timechiefoffinancialoperations,RogerMata,willbesteppingdownonFri
(1)Clothesplayacriticalpartintheconclusionswereachbyprovidingcluestowhopeopleare,whotheyarenot,andwhothey
Oneofthebiggestchallengesfacingemployersandeducatorstodayistherapidadvanceofglobalization.Themarketplaceisno
最新回复
(
0
)