In this paper we present a novel methodology to determine the annual value of recreational visit flows to different habitat types in Great Britain. We combine different empirical models to predict the spatial distributions of recreational value across Great Britain. The models use a combination...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Economies of sacrifice -- Circular economies, sacred economies: the sacrifice of labor in John Ruskin and nineteenth-century political economy -- Rational agents, ritual actions -- The visible hand : models of communality and economic information systems -- The...

"This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic experiences of early modern imperialism. The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time....