Saving the Whales: Lessons from the Extinction of the Eastern Arctic Bowhead
In this article we investigate the possibility that a regulatory regime designed to maximize the profitability of the early Dutch whaling industry could have simultaneously guaranteed the biological sustainability of the eastern Arctic Bowhead whale. We find that policies with economic profit as the...
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Economic History Association
2004
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