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Book Synopsis* 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. .
Table of ContentsContents.
Frontspiece Portrait of Grover Pease Osborne.
Editor's Introduction.
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.
A Comparative Political Economy Approach to Farming Interest Groups in Australia and the United States-.
Sean Alley and John Marangos.
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.
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.
The Resource Economics of Grover Pease Osborne: Author of American's First Textbook on Resource Economics-.
Gerald F. Vaughn.
Escaping the Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease?: When and Why Norway Caught Up with and Forged Ahead of Its Neighbors-.
Erling Roed Larsen.
GEORGIST PERSPECTIVES ON RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND FINANCING.
NonRenewable Exhaustible Resources and Property Taxation: Selected Observations-.
C. Lowell Harriss.
Lessons for Economic Reform Based on Pennsylvania's Experiences with the Two-Tiered Property Tax-.
Robert Andrew Peters.
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A Simple General Test for Tax Bias-.
Mason Gaffney.
Financing Transit Systems Through Value Capture: An Annotated Bibliography-.
Jeffrey J. Smith and Thomas A. Gihring.
RETHINKING THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS.
The complex Taxonomy of the Factors: Natural Resources, Human Action, and Capital Goods-.
Fred E. Foldvary.
Heterogeneity and Time: From Austrian Captial Theory to Ecological Economics-.
Malte Faber and Ralph Winkler.
Reconciling Gray and Hotelling: Lessons from Early Exhaustible Resource Economics-.
Richard J. Brazee and L. Martin Cloutier.
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