"As proposals for estimating the social scarcity prices of natural resources remain contentious, economic accountants ignore them and governments remain wary of doing anything about them."
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University of Cambridge alumniFellows of the Royal SocietyUniversity of Cambridge facultyEconomists from the United KingdomFellows of the British Academy
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Partha Dasgupta (2007). Economics: A Very Short Introduction. p. 161
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