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Air pollution, public health, and inflation
Since the passage of the environmental legislation in the early 1970's, critics have attacked these laws as being unnecessary and for contributing significantly to the problem of inflation in the United States. This paper is an attempt to put the inflationary costs of air pollution into perspective by considering them in light of the cost, especially to public health, of not proceeding with pol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0002-2470
DOI: 10.1080/00022470.1969.10466523