Further Details

Title: Pricing the Priceless
Condition: New
Description: While large literatures have separately examined the history of the environmental movement, government planning, and modern economics, Pricing the Priceless triangulates on all three. Offering the first book-length study of the history of modern environmental economics, it uncovers the unlikely role economists played in developing tools and instruments in support of environmental preservation. While economists were, and still are, seen as scientists who argue in favour of extracting natural resources, H. Spencer Banzhaf shows how some economists by the 1960s turned tools and theories used in defense of development into arguments in defense of the environment. Engaging with widely recognized names, such as John Muir, and major environmental disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, he offers a detailed examination of the environment, and explains how economics came to enter the field in a new way that made it possible to be “on the side” of the environment.
Author: H. Spencer Banzhaf
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
EAN: 9781108792066
Format: Paperback
Genre: Business & Finance
ISBN: 9781108792066
Item Weight: 434g
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 02/11/2023
Book Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Subtitle: A History of Environmental Economics
Type: Theory & Philosophy
Release Year: 2023

Missing Information?

Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.