Frontier Expansion and Economic Development

Contemporary Economic Policy - Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 286-303 - 2005
Edward B. Barbier1,2
1Barbier: John S. Bugas Professor of Economics, Departmentt of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, Department 3985, 162 Ross Hall, Laramie, WY 82071-3985. Phone 1-307-766-2358,
2Paper presented at the session on Environmental Economics at the 78th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Denver, CO, July 12, 2003. Thanks to Rich Carson, Nick Flores, Michael Hoel, Chuck Mason, Carol McAusland, Jay Shogren, Luis Sosa, and seminar participants at the Economics Department, University of Colorado, and the 6th Occasional Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Santa Barbara California, for invaluable comments and suggestions on previous versions of this article. Thanks to Seong-Hee Kim and Margie Reis for research assistance.

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