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I guess I'm trying to differentiate hard values from soft. Hard values typically show a more direct path between the product and the action making that product. Like carbon markets that directly influence the planting of trees. There's a chain of custody between those two items that we can (read: should be able to) track.

I take economic value to mean tradable/purchasable by another party. I'm basing that definition on the generation and sale of carbon credits in voluntary and regulatory carbon markets and the value power supply companies place on planting trees that reduce power usage (demand side management) like http://www.swenergy.org/Data/Sites/1/media/documents/news/AP...