Book contents
- Pricing the Priceless
- Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
- Pricing the Priceless
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conservation and Preservation
- 3 Do Economists Know about Lupines? Economics versus 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?
- 9 Constructing Markets
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series
Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
Book contents
- Pricing the Priceless
- Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
- Pricing the Priceless
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conservation and Preservation
- 3 Do Economists Know about Lupines? Economics versus 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?
- 9 Constructing Markets
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series
Summary
When the so-called God Committee met to decide the fate of the snail darter, the first test of the new Endangered Species Act, environmentalists were surprised to learn that economists could be on their side of the debate.
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- Pricing the PricelessA History of Environmental Economics, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023