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Editor's Choice The Early History of Environmental Economics

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  • Agnar Sandmo

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This article traces the history of economists’ treatment of environmental problems prior to the establishment of environmental economics as a separate field in the 1960s. I examine the economics literature from the late eighteenth century onward, searching for an awareness among early economists of both the effects of economic activity on the natural and social environment and the feedback from the environment to the economy. I argue that the way in which economic theory developed made it increasingly relevant for the study of environmental issues and the design of appropriate economic policies. (JEL: B00, Q30, Q50)

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  • Agnar Sandmo, 2015. "Editor's Choice The Early History of Environmental Economics," Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 9(1), pages 43-63.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:renvpo:v:9:y:2015:i:1:p:43-63.
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    1. Hrozencik, R. Aaron, 2018. "Energy, Food, and Water; Electricity Cooperative Pricing and Groundwater Irrigation Decisions," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274322, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Franco, Marco P.V., 2018. "Searching for a Scientific Paradigm in Ecological Economics: The History of Ecological Economic Thought, 1880s–1930s," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 195-203.
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    9. Samuel Fankhauser & Nicholas Stern, 2016. "Climate change, development, poverty and economics," GRI Working Papers 253, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
    10. Berta, Nathalie, 2020. "Efficiency without Optimality: A Pragmatic Compromise for Environmental Policies in the Late 1960s," OSF Preprints wp2xf, Center for Open Science.
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    • B00 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General - - - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
    • Q30 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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