This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care...

Part I. What Went Wrong with Modern Economic Science? -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Encounter of the Fifth Kind with an Alien Science -- Chapter 2. Is Economics a Science? -- Chapter 3. About Economists and Theologians -- Chapter 4. Taking a Phenomenological Approach to Oikonomics: Looking at the...