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"Historians of social science will benefit from the detailed examination of how economics expanded into new areas like the environment. Environmental historians will benefit from an understanding of how economics claimed to be 'on the side' of the environment. Environmental economists will benefit from the contextualization of their field"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue; 1. Introduction: Environmental Economics in Context; 2. Conservation and Preservation; 3. Do Economists Know About Lupines? Economics vs the Environment; 4. Consumer Surplus with Apology; 5. John Krutilla and the Environmental Turn in Natural Resource Economics; 6. Pricing Pollution; 7. Lives, Damned Lives, and Statistics; 8. Benefit-Cost Analysis: Objective or Multi-objective? Non-Market Valuation and Incommensurability; 9. Constructing Markets: The Contingent Valuation Controversy; Epilogue: The Future History of Pricing the Environment; References; Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
H. Spencer Banzhaf is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University and the director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy. In addition to his role at NCSU, he is a fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Property and Environment Research Center. He also serves as editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and on the advisory board of the Environmental Defense Fund. He is the author of over 70 books and articles.
Zusammenfassung
Historians of social science will benefit from the detailed examination of how economics expanded into new areas like the environment. Environmental historians will benefit from an understanding of how economics claimed to be 'on the side' of the environment. Environmental economists will benefit from the contextualization of their field.
Vorwort
This book tells how economics shifted from developing resources to valuing and incentivizing the preservation of natural environments.
