Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-276) and index.
Contents:
9 Epilogue: The Future History of Pricing the Environment. 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? Non-market Valuation and Incommensurability -- 9 Constructing Markets: The Contingent Valuation Controversy -- Epilogue: The Future History of Pricing the Environment.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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