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Americans think national parks are worth US$92 billion, but we don't fund them accordingly

  • Written by Linda J. Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Finance, Harvard University
imageViewing wildlife in Yellowstone National Park, WyomingNational Park Service/Flickr

One of the quirks of government accounting is that our nation’s most valuable assets – from aircraft carriers to interstate highways – don’t appear on any national balance sheet. In part this is because it is hard to put a value on them. How...

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