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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Laurence Moss is a professor of Economics at Babson College. Klappentext The field of natural resource economics is a broad one! and the fourteen essays included in this volume scope out major landmarks that exist in this vast territory. The essays' subjects include an examination of media bias in the environmental/resource management debate; a comparison between lobbying efforts in the United States and in Australia in support of policies that benefit farmers; an exploration of the historical evolution of land and forestry management policies among developed nations; a look at the origins of resource economics in the US; a case analysis of Norway's experiences with oil exploration and recovery and the international marketing of this resource for cash; and a section contemplating Georgist perspectives on resource utilization and financing. This book is a robust and wide-ranging collection in its inclusion of topics and conceptual approaches to natural resource economics. Zusammenfassung * highlights the historical evolution of land and forestry management policies among the developed nations and especially in the United States. * 14 essays that scope out major landmarks that exist in natural resource economics * Wide ranging in its inclusion of topics and conceptualapproaches. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents. Frontspiece Portrait of Grover Pease Osborne...v. Editor's Introduction...ix. THE IDEOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE UTILIZATION DEBATES. Newspaper Ideological Bias or "Statist Quo"?: The Acid (Rain). Test-William L. Anderson and Jacquelynne W. McLellan...1. A Comparative Political Economy Approach to Farming Interest. Groups in Austrailia and the United States-Sean Alley and . John Marangos...25. THE MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF LAND AND . OTHER RESOURCES: OLD AND NEW. Valuing Nature: Economic Analysis and Public Land Management!. 1975-2000-Robert H. Nelson...53. The Role of Ethnicity and Language in Contingent Valuation. Analysis: A Fire Prevention Policy Application-John Loomis! . Lindsey Ellingson! Armando Gonzalez-Caban! and . Andy Seidl...87. The Resource Economics of Grover Pease Osborne: Author. of American's First Textbook on Resource Economics-. Gerald F. Vaughn...115. Escaping the Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease?: When and. Why Norway Caught Up with and Forged Ahead of Its. Neighbors-Erling Roed Larsen...169. GEORGIST PERSPECTIVES ON RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND . FINANCING. NonRenewable Exhaustible Resources and Property Taxation:. Selected Observations-C. Lowell Harriss...221. Lessons for Economic Reform Based on Pennsylvania's. Experiences with the Two-Tiered Property Tax-. Robert Andrew Peters...229. viii The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. A Simple General Test for Tax Bias-Mason Gaffney...261. Financing Transit Systems Through Value Capture: An. Annotated Bibliography-Jeffrey J. Smith and. Thomas A. Gihring...279. RETHINKING THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF . NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS. The complex Taxonomy of the Factors: Natural Resources!. Human Action! and Capital Goods-Fred E. Foldvary...315. Heterogeneity and Time: From Austrian Captial Theory to. Ecological Economics-Malte Faber and Ralph Winkler...331. Reconciling Gray and Hotelling: Lessons from Early Exhaustible. Resource Economics-Richard J. Brazee and L. Martin Cloutier...355. Index...385... ...
