Robert H Nelson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 288266 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert H Nelson |
| NOMBRES | Robert H |
| APELLIDO | Nelson |
| FIRMA | NELSON R H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6236-9642 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Perish the thought
Lutheran Theology and Secular Law
Economic Religion and the Worship of Progress
In contemporary thought, the terms "secular" and "religious" are polar opposites. They are held to occupy separate domains. But that view is mistaken. Religious belief organizes society around fundamental ideas about ethics and existence. This article examines the way economic belief systems function as religions. Economic thought in various forms (Marxist, Keynesian, neoclassical) is brimming with implicit religious meaning. Instead of belief in…
Competition, education and assessment
In this article, we investigate competition in education, asking if it is good or bad, and especially if it is old and necessary or new and questionable. Using philological methods, we trace the history of competition and relate it to contemporary educational ideas. In history and modern pedagogical research, competition has a ‘dark side’ as well as energising qualities. We question the inseparability of competition and education, and, weighing u…
Prohibition and Eugenics
The study of implicit religion has typically examined more recent bellief systems with contemporary followers. It is also illuminating to study historic implicit religion that failed. Two of the leading such implicit religions are the alcohol prohibition movement and the eugenics movement. For the former, its faithful saw the elimination of alcohol from society as a way of saving the world. For the latter, the elimination of "defective" genes fro…
Economic Religion and Environmental Religion
The “economic religions” of the modern age, including Marxism, the American progressive-era “gospel of efficiency,” and the beliefs of the economic mainstream of the second half of the twentieth century, shared the conviction that economic progress—however it might best be achieved—would save the world. In the last decades of the twentieth century, however, economic religion was increasingly challenged by a new secular faith, “environmental relig…
Calvinism Without God
Environmentalism has emerged as an important part of the American public debate since the 1960s. It challenges the longstanding implicit faith in economic progress as the path of salvation of the world. The exercise of human scientific and economic mastery is instead seen as frequently doing great damage to the natural world, including to the global climate and the endangerment of whole species of plants and animals. To a greater degree than most…
A contribution to the history of assessment
Assessment in education is a recent phenomenon. Although there were counterparts in former epochs, the term assessment only began to be spoken about in education after the Second World War; and, since that time, views, strategies and concerns over assessment have proliferated according to an uncomfortable dynamic. We fear that, increasingly, education is assessment-led rather than learning-led and ‘counter to what is desired’ in an ugly judgement…
Multiple-use forest management versus ecosystem forest management
Rethinking Church and State
from their religious beliefs.For them, environmental degradation constitutes an affront to God." Id. at 28. "For some persons [in the environmental movement], the choice between one environmental standard and another poses no less than a choice between competing moral absolutes."Id. at 190
Toward a history of rigour
Though a cornerstone of all research and evaluation, rigour in scholarship is a relatively recent concept, which is poorly defined and never interrogated. This article traces the dark history of the idea, beginning with intolerance, harshness and punishment, and slowly rising to something admirable in the industrial period, whereupon it is immediately seen in opposition to creative method. The text argues that, in the arts and humanities, rigour …
Homeowners Associations in Historical Perspective
This article offers a brief historical overview of the rise and growing social significance of homeowners associations in the United States. With the spread of business corporations in the late nineteenth century, private ownership of American business property increasingly became collective. Since the 1970s, homeowners associations have extended this fundamental collectivizing trend to private ownership of residential property. Homeowners associ…
A Covenant for Globalization
A review of: Max L. Stackhouse, Globalization and Grace [God and Globalization, Volume 4] (New York: Continuum, 2007). 254pp. $39.95
New Community Associations for Established Neighborhoods
From 1980 to 2000, 50 percent the new housing in the United States was located in a development project where it was subject to the governance of a private community association. The creation of a community association requires unanimous consent, which is achieved in practice by requiring home owner agreement as a condition of initial purchase in new developments. In an established neighborhood of existing homes and other properties, however, it …
Valuing Nature
During the 1970s, Congress created a new statutory foundation for public land management by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The stated goal was to establish a rational administrative process for resolving the demands of competing users. Economists argued that public land decisions therefore must be made through comprehensive application of benefit-cost and other economic methods. The hopes to ground public land management i…
All in the name of progress
T he war, it is said, was a struggle between communism and capitalism. In the end, as the story goes, capitalism triumphed through economic superiority. The history of the twentieth century was in general dominated by conflicts among competing economic systems. Besides capitalism and communism, the leading intellectuals of the century debated — and politicians occasionally waged wars over — the merits of socialism, the free market, the welfare st…
Many ways of educating the client
In memoriam
Books in review
The future of the national forests
Reaching for Heaven on Earth
Journal Article Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics Get access Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. By Robert H. Nelson. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. Pp. xxvii + 378. ISBN 0 8476 7664 1.) A. W. Coats A. W. Coats Duke UniversityUniversity of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 416, 1 Ja…
Why existence value should not be used in cost‐benefit analysis
Why Existence Value Should Not Be Used in Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Office of Policy Analysis in the Department of the Interior
The history of a particular policy office, located in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is reviewed from the standpoint of a long-time participant-observer. This office played an active part in the formation of federal policies with respect to the leasing of Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas, the leasing of federally owned coal, and the supply and distribution of federally controlled water in the west, but in many other areas the office was …
Dispute Resolution
Ten Commandments for Policy Economists
The incorporation of economic approaches into policymaking requires special skills on the part of the economist. This article examines the use of economics in government as illustrated by the experience of the natural resources agencies. It presents ten guiding rules for the practicing policy economist: (1) be economical about the use of economics; (2) discount for political demand; (3) dare to be “quick-and-dirty”; (4) think like a manager; (5) …
The Office of Policy Analysis in the Department of the Interior
The history of a particular policy office, located in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is reviewed from the standpoint of a long-time participant-observer. This office played an active part in the formation of federal policies with respect to the leasing of Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas, the leasing of federally owned coal, and the supply and distribution of federally controlled water in the west, but in many other areas the office was …
New Community Associations for Established Neighborhoods
From 1980 to 2000, 50 percent the new housing in the United States was located in a development project where it was subject to the governance of a private community association. The creation of a community association requires unanimous consent, which is achieved in practice by requiring home owner agreement as a condition of initial purchase in new developments. In an established neighborhood of existing homes and other properties, however, it …
Rethinking Church and State
from their religious beliefs.For them, environmental degradation constitutes an affront to God." Id. at 28. "For some persons [in the environmental movement], the choice between one environmental standard and another poses no less than a choice between competing moral absolutes."Id. at 190
Economic Religion and the Worship of Progress
In contemporary thought, the terms "secular" and "religious" are polar opposites. They are held to occupy separate domains. But that view is mistaken. Religious belief organizes society around fundamental ideas about ethics and existence. This article examines the way economic belief systems function as religions. Economic thought in various forms (Marxist, Keynesian, neoclassical) is brimming with implicit religious meaning. Instead of belief in…
Why existence value should not be used in cost‐benefit analysis
Why Existence Value Should Not Be Used in Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Making of Federal Coal Policy
The Making of Federal Coal Policy provides a unique record of-as well as important future perspectives on-one of the most significant ideological conflicts in national policymaking in the last decade. The management of federally owned coal, almost one-third of the U.S.'s total coal resources, has furnished an arena for the contest between energy development and environmental protection, as well as between the federal government and the states. Ro…
Multiple-use forest management versus ecosystem forest management
Toward a history of rigour
Though a cornerstone of all research and evaluation, rigour in scholarship is a relatively recent concept, which is poorly defined and never interrogated. This article traces the dark history of the idea, beginning with intolerance, harshness and punishment, and slowly rising to something admirable in the industrial period, whereupon it is immediately seen in opposition to creative method. The text argues that, in the arts and humanities, rigour …
Valuing Nature
During the 1970s, Congress created a new statutory foundation for public land management by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The stated goal was to establish a rational administrative process for resolving the demands of competing users. Economists argued that public land decisions therefore must be made through comprehensive application of benefit-cost and other economic methods. The hopes to ground public land management i…
Reaching for Heaven on Earth
Journal Article Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics Get access Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. By Robert H. Nelson. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. Pp. xxvii + 378. ISBN 0 8476 7664 1.) A. W. Coats A. W. Coats Duke UniversityUniversity of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 416, 1 Ja…
The Political Economy of Land Use Control
Accessibility and Rent
THE APPLICATION OF BECKER'S ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF TIME IN CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING TO THE THEORY OF RESIDENTIAL LOCATION IS DESCRIBED IN THIS PAPER ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RENT AND ACCESSIBILITY. THE LOCATIONS FOR WHICH THE CONSUMER WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY THE HIGHEST RENTS WOULD BE THOSE THAT ARE MOST ACCESSIBLE FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF THE LARGEST NUMBER OF GOODS. THIS MODEL ANALYSES COMPENSATING RENT DIFFERENTIALS TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION…
Zoning and Property Rights
The Political Economy of Land Use Control
Ten Commandments for Policy Economists
The incorporation of economic approaches into policymaking requires special skills on the part of the economist. This article examines the use of economics in government as illustrated by the experience of the natural resources agencies. It presents ten guiding rules for the practicing policy economist: (1) be economical about the use of economics; (2) discount for political demand; (3) dare to be “quick-and-dirty”; (4) think like a manager; (5) …
Zoning and Property Rights
(1981). Zoning and Property Rights: An Analysis of the American System of Land-Use Regulation. Economic Geography: Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 187-188
The Making of Federal Coal Policy
The Making of Federal Coal Policy provides a unique record of-as well as important future perspectives on-one of the most significant ideological conflicts in national policymaking in the last decade. The management of federally owned coal, almost one-third of the U.S.'s total coal resources, has furnished an arena for the contest between energy development and environmental protection, as well as between the federal government and the states. Ro…
NRDC v. Morton
The Federal Lands Revisited . Marion Clawson
Dispute Resolution
The Office of Policy Analysis in the Department of the Interior
The history of a particular policy office, located in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is reviewed from the standpoint of a long-time participant-observer. This office played an active part in the formation of federal policies with respect to the leasing of Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas, the leasing of federally owned coal, and the supply and distribution of federally controlled water in the west, but in many other areas the office was …
Why existence value should not be used in cost‐benefit analysis
Why Existence Value Should Not Be Used in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Reaching for Heaven on Earth
Journal Article Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics Get access Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. By Robert H. Nelson. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. Pp. xxvii + 378. ISBN 0 8476 7664 1.) A. W. Coats A. W. Coats Duke UniversityUniversity of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 416, 1 Ja…
The future of the national forests
In memoriam
Books in review
Many ways of educating the client
All in the name of progress
T he war, it is said, was a struggle between communism and capitalism. In the end, as the story goes, capitalism triumphed through economic superiority. The history of the twentieth century was in general dominated by conflicts among competing economic systems. Besides capitalism and communism, the leading intellectuals of the century debated — and politicians occasionally waged wars over — the merits of socialism, the free market, the welfare st…
New Community Associations for Established Neighborhoods
From 1980 to 2000, 50 percent the new housing in the United States was located in a development project where it was subject to the governance of a private community association. The creation of a community association requires unanimous consent, which is achieved in practice by requiring home owner agreement as a condition of initial purchase in new developments. In an established neighborhood of existing homes and other properties, however, it …
Valuing Nature
During the 1970s, Congress created a new statutory foundation for public land management by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The stated goal was to establish a rational administrative process for resolving the demands of competing users. Economists argued that public land decisions therefore must be made through comprehensive application of benefit-cost and other economic methods. The hopes to ground public land management i…
A Covenant for Globalization
A review of: Max L. Stackhouse, Globalization and Grace [God and Globalization, Volume 4] (New York: Continuum, 2007). 254pp. $39.95
Toward a history of rigour
Though a cornerstone of all research and evaluation, rigour in scholarship is a relatively recent concept, which is poorly defined and never interrogated. This article traces the dark history of the idea, beginning with intolerance, harshness and punishment, and slowly rising to something admirable in the industrial period, whereupon it is immediately seen in opposition to creative method. The text argues that, in the arts and humanities, rigour …
Homeowners Associations in Historical Perspective
This article offers a brief historical overview of the rise and growing social significance of homeowners associations in the United States. With the spread of business corporations in the late nineteenth century, private ownership of American business property increasingly became collective. Since the 1970s, homeowners associations have extended this fundamental collectivizing trend to private ownership of residential property. Homeowners associ…
Rethinking Church and State
from their religious beliefs.For them, environmental degradation constitutes an affront to God." Id. at 28. "For some persons [in the environmental movement], the choice between one environmental standard and another poses no less than a choice between competing moral absolutes."Id. at 190
Multiple-use forest management versus ecosystem forest management
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