Scarcity and frontiers: how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation/
Barbier, Edward,
Scarcity and frontiers: how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation/ Edward B. Barbier. - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xviii, 748 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
9780521877732 9780521701655 (pbk.)
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History.
Natural resources.
Scarcity.
Economic development.
333.7 / BAR/S
Scarcity and frontiers: how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation/ Edward B. Barbier. - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xviii, 748 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
9780521877732 9780521701655 (pbk.)
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History.
Natural resources.
Scarcity.
Economic development.
333.7 / BAR/S