Economists and ecologists misunderstand each other about the environment. Improving interdisciplinary communication should enable natural scientists to take economic analysis and prescriptions more seriously.
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Fullerton, D., Stavins, R. How economists see the environment. Nature 395, 433–434 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/26606
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