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Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation /

Main Author: Barbier, Edward, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > History.
Natural resources
Scarcity
Economic development
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : scarcity and frontiers
  • The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC)
  • The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD)
  • The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500)
  • Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914)
  • The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860)
  • The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914)
  • The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950)
  • The contemporary era (from 1950 to the present)
  • Epilogue : the age of ecological scarcity?

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