Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered

V. Kerry Smith

1: The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: An Interpretative Introduction; 2: A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources; 3: Entropy, Growth, and the Political Economy of Scarcity; 4: Comments on the Papers by Daly and Stiglitz; 5: Fundamental Concepts for the Analysis of Resource Availability; 6: The Age of Substitutability: A Scientific Appraisal of Natural Resource Adequacy; 7: Comments on the Papers by Brobst and Goeller; 8: Scarcity and Growth Revisited; 9: The Adequacy of Measures for Signaling The Scarcity of Natural Resources; 10: Measures of Natural Resource Scarcity; 11: Summary and Research Issues