H. Spencer Banzhaf

Pricing the Priceless (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Environmental Economics

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108853064
• Artikelnr.: 70911702

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.