Harold J Barnett, Chandler Morse

Scarcity and Growth

The Economics of Natural Resource Availability

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this classic study, the authors assess the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957. First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781617260315
• ISBN-10: 1617260312
• Artikelnr.: 32446203

Autorenporträt

Harold J. Barnett, Chandler Morse

Inhaltsangabe

1: Scarcity and Growth: A Summary View
1: The Doctrine of Increasing Natural Resource Scarcity
2: Contemporary Views on the Social Aspects of Natural Resources
3: Malthus, Ricardo, and Mill on Increasing Natural Resource Scarcity
4: The Conservation Movement
II: Growth and Increasing Scarcity without Progress
5: Basic Scarcity Models
6: Mitigations of Scarcity in Complex Economies
III: Resources in a Progressive World
7: A Parametrically Variant, Static, and Historical Growth Model
8: The Unit Cost of Extractive Products
9: A Weak Scarcity Hypothesis and Its Test
10: Ambiguous Indicators of Resource Scarcity
IV: Welfare in a Progressive World
11: Self-Generating Technological Change
12: Natural Resources and the Quality of Life