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The Economy of the Earth, Second Edition
Mark Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations
of environmentalism in prehensive revision of The Economy of the
questions pertinent to consumption, cost-benefit analysis,
the normative implications of neo-Darwinism, the role of natural history,
and the centrality of the concept of place in environmental ethics, he ana-
lyzes social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace,
and public safety and health. Sagoff distinguishes ethical from economic
questions and explains which kinds of concepts, arguments, and pro-
cesses are appropriate to each. He offers a critique of “preference” and
“willingness to pay” as measures of value in environmental economics
and defends political, cultural, aesthetic, and ethical reasons to protect
the natural environment.
Mark Sagoff directs and is a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for
Philosophy and Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, College Park. The author of Price, Principle and the
Environment (2004), he has published widely in journals of law, philoso-
phy, and the environment. Dr. Sagoff was named a Pew Scholar in Con-
servation and the Environment in 1991 and was a Fellow at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars in a Fellow of the
Hastings Center and of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
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The Economy of the Earth
Philosophy, Law, and the Environment
Second Edition
MARK SAGOFF
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
University of Maryland
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