Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation
Edward B. Barbier
| Year of publication: |
c2011 ; 1. publ.
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| Authors: | Barbier, Edward |
| Publisher: |
Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Subject: | Entwicklung | Economic development | Wirtschaftswachstum | Economic growth | Ressourcenökonomik | Resource economics | Natürliche Ressourcen | Natural resources | Rohstoffvorkommen | Resource deposit | Geschichte | History | Welt | World | Wirtschaftsentwicklung | Ausbeutung |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [assets.cambridge.org] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [catdir.loc.gov] ; Description [catdir.loc.gov] |
| Extent: | XVIII, 748 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Literaturangaben Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: scarcity and frontiers; 2. The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC); 3. The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD); 4. The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500); 5. Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914); 6. The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860); 7. The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914); 8. The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950); 9. The contemporary era (from 1950 to present); 10. Epilogue: the age of ecological scarcity?; Index. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-70165-5 ; 978-0-521-87773-2 ; 0-521-87773-3 ; 0-521-70165-1 |
| Classification: | Volkswirtschaftliche Ressourcen, Umweltökonomie ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Wirtschaftsstruktur: Allgemeines |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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