That land is far more valuable now than it was then: Jeroen Aerts and Wouter Botzen of the Netherlands' VU University reckon the value of structures threatened by storms and floods has increased four- to sevenfold in the past century.
Mr Krishnamurthy and Ms Vissing-Jorgensen reckon the value that investors place on the safety and liquidity of Treasuries averaged a hefty 73 basis points in forgone yields over the period they studied.Lower borrowing costs on government debt are a boon for the taxpayer but not necessarily helpful to other debt issuers.
Even so, it too reckons the value of business and home desktop PC sales will be no higher in 2003 than it is today.The PC market has seen boom and bust before.
Within ten months of Mr Ahmadinejad's election, he reckons, the value of civil contracts awarded to the Guards, many of them without going to competitive tender, had trebled from $4 billion to $12 billion.
But we also have no good means for reckoning the value of different actions interpersonally.
(Regatta organizer Hank Halsted, president of Northrop and Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island, reckoned the value of this year's fleet of 28 boats to be about $450 million).
Privately, officials reckon the rupee's fair value, taking into account India's higher inflation and productivity over the past few years, is a little less than 60 per dollar, so the market has yet to overshoot wildly.
On a larger scale, the TEEB project reckons the annual value contributed by global wetlands at $3.4 billion.
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where the 2004 vice-presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards took place, said it reckoned the publicity value of the event at $44 million, for its $4 million "investment," according to Lara Kalafatis, vice president for university relations at Case Western.
Today, he has more than 1,000 Star Wars items in his collection, filling the garage and loft of his home in Leeds, and reckons the total value is towards £100,000.
All green bonds are investment grade; many have been two or three times oversubscribed; half were issued by companies, a switch from 2013, when most green bonds were sold by international agencies such as the World Bank.Climate Bonds Initiative, a research group, reckons the cumulative value of all green bonds will be around $50 billion by the end of 2014.
