Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: José Luis Ramos Gorostiza
Author-Workplace-Name: Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas I. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Workplace-Homepage:
 https://www.ucm.es/histecon1
Title: Ethics and economics: Lewis Gray and the conservation question 
Abstract: In “The Economic Possibilities of Conservation” [1913], Lewis Gray reinterpreted from an economic point of view the idea of 
	conservation which had popularized the American Conservation Movement. He linked intergenerational equity and non-renewable 
	resource extraction rate. Gray’s article can be considered as an antecedent of two significant debates in modern natural 
	resource economics. On the one hand, it is a direct precedent of the environmental discussion about the meaning of discounting. 
	On the other, it is an important element in the historical conformation of the sustainability debate.
Abstract: Se estudia la obra "The economic possibilities of conservation" (1913) de L. C. Gray, que popularizó las ideas de American 
	Conservation Movement. Esta obra se considera un antecedente del debate actual sobre los recursos naturales y el desarrollo 
	sostenible.
Keywords:
 Gray, Conservation, Natural resource economics, Discounting, Intergenerational equity.
Length: 24 pages

Creation-Date: 2002
Number:
 02-06
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