Recently, the public attention has turned toward the intricate interrelation between economic growth and global warming. This book focuses on this nexus but broadens the framework to study the issue. Growth is seen as global growth, which affects the global environment and climate change. Global gro
Economic Growth and Resources: Natural Resources
โ Scribed by Christopher Bliss, M. Boserup (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 220
- Series
- International Economic Association Publications Series
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Transition from Exhaustible to Renewable or Inexhaustible Resources....Pages 3-11
Energy and Future Economic Growth....Pages 12-32
Future Capital Requirements of Alternative Energy Strategies: Global Perspectives....Pages 33-48
Are there really Depletable Resources?....Pages 49-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Are we at a Turning Point in the World Demographic Situation?....Pages 67-73
Resources for Increasing World Food Production....Pages 74-84
Will the Long-run Global Supply of Industrial Minerals be Adequate? A Case Study of Iron, Aluminium and Copper....Pages 85-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth....Pages 107-132
The Role of Technological Change in United States Economic Growth....Pages 133-145
R & D, Knowledge, and Externalities: An Approach to the Puzzle of Disparate Productivity Growth Rates Among Manufacturing Industries....Pages 146-161
Induced Innovation in Agriculture....Pages 162-189
The Impact of Agricultural Price Policies on Demand and Supply, Incomes, and Imports; an Experimental Model for South Asia....Pages 190-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-210
โฆ Subjects
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Economic Growth
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