ABSTRACT
Once we are free from the illusion that free-market environmentalism will protect the environment, we are free to explore the pros and cons of different policies that can. This chapter seeks to provide environmentalists and progressives who are not economists with the necessary information to correct common misunderstandings about what different policies do, and do not do. Hopefully this knowledge will render environmentalists and progressives immune from intimidation at the hands of technocratic economists who often do not share their values and priorities.
