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Mason Gaffney wrote:
"Interestingly a German forester, Martin
Faustmann (1849), wrote a classic on valuation of forest
lands, but there seems to have been a wall between foresters and economists."
At least one later instance of forester -
economist interaction is described in an
appraisal text by Burton, James
H. 1982. Evolution of the Income
Approach. American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers, Chicago. 260pp. Burton notes (pp.
44-45) that Yale forestry professor Herbert Haupt
Chapman's 1914 text Forest Valuation acknowledged
the influence of Yale economist Irving Fisher in
stating that the rate of interest is determined
by "the demand and supply of money...impatience
for income...and the preference for present over future income."
I have not looked at Chapman in many years and
don't recall if he was aware of Faustmann.
While Faustmann is often credited with the first
use of DCF in the valuation of land and other
natural resources there are a number of much earlier mathematical treatments.
Scorgie, M.E., 1996. Evolution of the application
of present value to valuation of non-monetary resources.
Accounting and Business Research 26, 237–248
notes early applications, for example as early as the Great Fire of London.
Viitala, Esa-Jussi. 2006. An early contribution
of Martin Faustmann to natural resource
economics. Journal of Forest Economics
12:131–144, adds to the pre-Faustmann list and
also identifies a treatment slightly earlier than
Faustmann by "F" which may also be attributable to Faustmann.
Scott Cullen
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