Economic Growth and Resources: Natural Resources

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