Why water is not an ordinary economic good, or why the girl is special

被引：79

作者：

Savenije, HHG ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] IHE Delft, NL-2601 DA Delft, Netherlands

来源：

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH | 2002年 / 27卷 / 11-22期

关键词：

water as an economic good; water resources management;

D O I：

10.1016/S1474-7065(02)00060-8

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

Water is not a normal economic good. It has a large number of characteristics that distinguish it from other goods. Individually, these characteristics may not be unique, but their combination makes water a special economic good. The metaphor about the girl refers to the fact that people always consider something which is close to their heart as special. A parent often fails to see that the daughter is just a girl. One could also blame water professionals for not seeing that water is just a normal economic good. The paper argues that there are good arguments to consider water as a special economic good. As a result, the application of regular economic theories to water resources management is not very efficient.. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：741 / 744

页数：4

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