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Article: HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT.(Review)
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- Journal of Economic Issues
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- March 1, 2000
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HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT. By Erhun Kula. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xiii, 235. $85.00 (hardcover).
Erhun Kula has authored a fine and much-needed survey of the history of environmental economic thought, as one of the series of Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. Kula's historiography is a highly readable and concise, yet impressively comprehensive, account of the development of this increasingly important branch of economics. Kula does not self-identify as an institutional economist (so far as I know) and does not cite many of the great thinkers in institutional economics. However, his book gives ample and respectful ...