David W Pearce: 3 books

Book cover of Elephants, Economics and Ivory
by Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing,...
Book cover of The Valuation of Social Cost (Routledge Revivals)
by David W. Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

First published in 1978, The Valuation of Social Cost is concerned both with the idea, and with the practical problems, of placing monetary values on ‘intangible’, non-marketed goods, such as pollution, noise nuisance, personal injury, or the loss of home, neighbours or recreational benefit. A...
Book cover of The Human Tradition in the New South
by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives...
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