Details

Subject(s)

• Environmental economics [Browse]
• Natural resources [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 17. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 17 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume presents the key ideas of major figures in economics throughout history, covering issues such as population growth, resource scarcity and environmental contamination.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; The early days; The Malthusian problem; Ricardian stagnation; Socialism, Marxism and the environment; Natural resources and the environment in neo-classical tradition; The interventionist school on natural resources and the environment; Market environmentalism based on property rights; Empirical studies on scarcity after the Second World War; Spaceship Earth; The sustainability debate; Ethical and spiritual dimensions of environmental exploitation; Summary and conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography
• Index

ISBN

• 1-134-78431-7
• 0-429-23176-8
• 0-203-28665-0
• 1-280-31943-7
• 0-203-43611-3

OCLC

• 171117375
• 437078854

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