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    • The world price of coal 

      Ellerman, A. Denny (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1994)
      A significant increase in the seaborne trade for coal over the past twenty years has unified formerly separate coal markets into a world market in which prices move in tandem. Due to its large domestic market, the United ...

    • Sustainable growth and valuation of mineral reserves 

      Adelman, Morris Albert (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1994)
      The annual change in the value of an in-ground mineral is equal to the increase or decrease of inventories ("reserves"), multiplied by the market value of a reserve unit. The limited shrinking resource base does not exist. ...

    • A comparison of public policies for lead recycling 

      Sigman, Hilary (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1992)
      Policies that encourage recycling may be used to reduce environmental costs from waste disposal when direct restrictions on disposal are difficult to enforce. Four recycling policies have been advanced: (i) taxes on the ...