Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production

IF 6.6 2区 经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108434
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This paper identifies market failure caused by an animal welfare externality that occurs if private animal friendliness falls short of social animal friendliness. Efficiency is restored by taxing the quantity of animal food and subsidizing the quality per unit of animal food. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, a promising policy includes mandatory quality standards. If a producer wants to be qualified as outdoor husbandry farmer, she has to fulfill an ambitious standard. As compensation, she obtains a subsidy on output, whereas factory farmers, who face a lower mandatory quality standard, still have to pay a tax on their output.
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动物福利、道德消费者和动物食品生产的最优监管
本文指出,如果私人动物友好度低于社会动物友好度,动物福利外部性就会导致市场失灵。通过对动物食品的数量征税和对每单位动物食品的质量进行补贴,可以恢复效率。由于消费者和生产者的异质性,一项有前途的政策包括强制性质量标准。如果生产者想成为合格的户外畜牧业农民,就必须达到一个高标准。作为补偿,她可以获得产出补贴,而面临较低强制性质量标准的工厂化养殖户则仍需为其产出纳税。
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Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学
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12.00
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发文量
313
审稿时长
6 months
期刊介绍: Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.
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