Scarcity in the Modern World

John Brewer is Eli and Edye Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, USA. Neil Fromer is the Executive Director of the Resnick Institute at the California Institute of Technology, USA. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is Associate Professor of British History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago, USA. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

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1. Introduction, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer, Neil Fromer and Frank Trentmann
Part 1 Making Scarcity
2. Scarcity: Language and Politics, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
3. Untangling Scarcity, Amber Huff and Lyla Mehta
4. Rethinking the Relationships between Scarcity, Poverty and Hunger: An Anthropological Perspective, Richard Wilk
5. Renewable Energy: A Story of Abundance and Scarcity, Neil Fromer
Part 2 The Power of Projection
6. Growth in the Anthropocene, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
7. The Great Resources Myth, David Rutledge
8. Escapology, or How to Escape Malthusian Traps, Jörg Friedrichs
Part 3 Coping, Managing, Innovating at Different Scales
9. U.S. Mobilization during the Second World War as a Model for Coping with Climate Change, Hugh Rockoff
10. Scarcity and Innovation: Lessons from the British Economy during the U.S. Civil War, W. Walker Hanlon
11. China’s Great Leap Famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao and Material Scarcity, Sigrid Schmalzer
12. Encounters with Scarcity at a Micro-Scale: Householders’ Responses to Drought as a Continuum of Normal Practice, Heather Chappells
Part 4 Dynamics of Distribution
13. A Climate of Scarcity: Electricity in India, 1899–2016, Elizabeth Chatterjee
14. Lagos ‘Scarce-City’: Investigating the Roots of Urban Modernity in a Colonial Capital, 1900–1928, David Lamoureux
15. Energy Shortages and the Politics of Time: Resilience, Redistribution and ‘Normality’ in Japan and East Germany, 1940s–1970s, Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann
16. Food Shortages: The Role and Limitations of Markets in Resolving Food Crises during the 2012 Famine in the Sahel, Emma C. Stephens
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