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Scarcity and growth reconsidered

V. Kerry Smith

(Resources for the Future library collection, . Environmental resource and economics ; v. 8)

RFF Press, 2011

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"First published in 1979 by Resources for the Future" -- T.p. verso

Set ISBN for "Environmental resource and economics": 9781617260032

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply. Originally published in 1979

Table of Contents

  • 1: The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: An Interpretative Introduction
  • 2: A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources
  • 3: Entropy, Growth, and the Political Economy of Scarcity
  • 4: Comments on the Papers by Daly and Stiglitz
  • 5: Fundamental Concepts for the Analysis of Resource Availability
  • 6: The Age of Substitutability: A Scientific Appraisal of Natural Resource Adequacy
  • 7: Comments on the Papers by Brobst and Goeller
  • 8: Scarcity and Growth Revisited
  • 9: The Adequacy of Measures for Signaling The Scarcity of Natural Resources
  • 10: Measures of Natural Resource Scarcity
  • 11: Summary and Research Issues

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Details

  • NCID
    BB0579600X
  • ISBN
    • 9781617260322
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Washington, D.C.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 298 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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