...Esa-Jussi Viitala This article examines the discovery and early development of the most fundamental of forest and natural resource economic principles, the “Faustmann formula” and the “Faustmann condition,” and links their emergence more closely to the general development of economic thought than...

...Carl W. Hale Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 History of Political Economy I I :3 C 1979 by Duke University Press Resource transferal in the developing economy: a critique...

...—as if by an invisible hand—a socially desirable allocation of resources (a result that no individual agent intended). N. Emrah Aydinonat discusses Smith’s invisible hand, but the two specifi c models that receive the most attention in the book are Carl Menger’s explanation of the origin of money (chaps. 3 and 6...

... : 82 -84. Dulebohn, James, Gerald Ferris, and James Stodd. 1995 . The History and Evolution of Human Resources Management. In Handbook of Human Resource Management , edited by G. Ferris, S. Rosen, and D. Barnum. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell. Eberle, George. 1919 . Labor Turnover. American...

... of political economy.2 Fernow’s main contribution to natural resource economic theory was his fourfold classification of natural resources: (i) inexhaustible resources, (ii) exhaustible and non-renewable resources, (iii) renewable resources, but liable to deterioration under increased...

... capital as open-access resource Murray Wolfson, Ze’ev B. Orzech, and Susan Hanna 1.. Introduction Although debate continues over whether the conditions of workers in nine- teenth-century England were worse than they had been in agricultural oc- cupations...

...Guido Erreygers Exhaustible resources were integrated into the neoclassical growth model in the early 1970s. This happened partly as a reaction to various reports focusing on the limits to growth. At a deeper level, the debate on Rawls's theory of justice in an intergenerational context...

...Antoine Missemer; Marion Gaspard; Roberto P. Ferreira da Cunha Harold Hotelling’s 1931 article on the economics of exhaustible resources is considered groundbreaking in the history of nonrenewable resource analysis. Hotelling’s innovation has been characterized by comparing his work with other...

... Botaniques, Chimiques et Pharmaceutiques, sur quelques Plantes indigènes, substituées avec succès, à des végétaux exotiques, auxquels on a joint des observations médicinales sur les mêmes objets . Nancy: Veuve Leclerc. “Peaches Which the Patriarchs Lacked”: Natural History, Natural Resources...

...A. M. C. Waterman Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Brown , Stewart J. 1982 . Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth . Oxford. Chalmers , Thomas 1808 . An Enquiry into the Nature and Stability of National Resources . Edinburgh. Chalmers...

...Harro Maas At the end of the 1950s, resource economists developed a method to derive demand functions for recreation sites from travel cost data for recreation planning purposes. Based on this work, a second, direct method of measurement was developed in the early sixties that became known...

... tax in fisheries, and explains how property rights in fisheries will lead to maximized resource rent and prevent overfishing. What is missing in Warming's description of the problem is the dynamic aspect and that the economics of natural resources should be analyzed in a capital theoretic framework...

...Niels-Henrik Topp The paper examines the Dane Jens Warming's published and unpublished works on fisheries economics from the period 1911–38. In 1911 Warming published a highly original article on the problems of open access to a common property resource. The article contains the same results as H...

..., showing how its context of discovery conditioned its form, the concepts Arrow used and the way he defined them, and the modeling strategy he employed. We first show that Arrow's work on scale economies was part of a research project carried out with Hollis Chenery on technology and resource allocation...

... the difficulties Maclaurin encountered and the failure of the project to draw on the resources of MIT's scientists and engineers in the way he and Rockefeller officials had hoped and reflects on his marginalization in a department increasingly dominated by Paul Samuelson. Maclaurin's interdisciplinary approach...

... indefensible when applied to intergenerational comparisons became a technical requirement in dynamic models of either a consumer or a planner deciding the intertemporal allocation of resources. Correspondence may be addressed to Pedro Garcia Duarte, Dept. Economia, FEA-USP, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 908...

... our interpretation on a systematic and thorough exploitation of Schumpeter's posthumously published book, recently translated into English under the title A Treatise on Money . This is an essential resource, in which Schumpeter replaced the orthodox view of a “real” economy by the central concept...

... and liberty, economic efficiency, commercial interests, corruptive effects on individual and public morality, and political necessity. Distribution of limited resources is discussed in terms of a zero-sum game. In one of the key moments of the treatise, Guicciardini denies that preferences toward the best...

... abundant natural resources. While most improvement writers were patronized by the state and offered state-centered analyses, the protagonist of this essay, Anders Kempe (1622–1689), was a staunch critic of Sweden’s warmongering state. In his mind, the state had become an obstacle to true human flourishing...

...Thomas Michael Mueller Harold Hotelling’s work, from natural resources economics to optimal taxation, and from spatial to welfare economics, was deeply influenced by his Georgist affiliation and by a Georgist game that we now call Monopoly, which at the time was known as the Landlord’s Game. We...