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Highways England Consultation — A303/Stonehenge

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nigelswift Feb 22, 2017 08:36:46
Replying to jonmor

jonmor wrote:
In principle It's not difficult to assign value Nigel. You work out the benefits and/or risks of retaining whatever it is that you're looking to defend and then find a way to quantify that to an equivalent financial value.
Yes I'm well aware of that Jon, given that my main qualification is in Economics. It doesn't work for Heritage. Your belief that economists can bring something useful to the issue of heritage value is flattering but mistaken.
How would economists solve this little lot?
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/image-of-the-year/

J jonmor
jonmor Feb 22, 2017 08:55:36
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
[quote="jonmor"]
Yes I'm well aware of that Jon, given that my main qualification is in Economics. It doesn't work for Heritage. Your belief that economists can bring something useful to the issue of heritage value is flattering but mistaken..../
Economics is one way to quantify value Nigel. If you don't believe that any arguments exist which can be transferred to an equivalent financial estimate of value (to allow the route options to be reconsidered), then it's unlikely that you would want to research ways in which economic arguments could be used.

There may be other ways to quantify value: If there are ways that you know of, then perhaps you might consider bringing up those arguments in the consultation?

What background do you have in economics?