The demand for solid waste disposal: comment.
A commentary on J.G. Strathman, A.M. Rufolo, and G.C.S. Mildner's “The Demand for Solid Waste Disposal,” which appeared in Land Economics, vol. 71 (February), pp. 57-64. Strathman, Rufolo, and Mildner (SRM) implicitly set σij, which reflects the substitutability of landfill services with other inpu...
| Publicado en: | Land Economics Vol. 72; pp. 129 - 132 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
February 1996
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