Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics

Catherine Louise Kling of Cornell University reviews “Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics” by H. Spencer Banzhaf. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores how economists have thought about the tension between delighting in the wilderness as it is encountered and also taming it and making it useful, focusing primarily on applied economics in the United States between the 1940s and 1980s.”