Scarcity and Growth

The Economics of Natural Resource Availability
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-61726-031-5
Verlag: RFF Press

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

Reihe: RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set

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.

Originally published in 1963

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Harold J.

Morse, Chandler

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Harold J. Barnett, Chandler Morse