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The Ultimate Resource 2
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Author(s):
Julian L. Simon
Publication date:
June 30 2020
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
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9780691214764
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069121476X
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9780691003818
Publication date:
June 30 2020
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctv10vm1h7
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Book chapters
pp. i
Front Matter
pp. vii
Table of Contents
pp. xi
Analytical Contents
pp. xix
List of Figures
pp. xli
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
pp. xxix
List of Tables
pp. xxxi
Preface
pp. xxxix
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
pp. 3
Introduction.
pp. 23
The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity
pp. 41
Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong?
pp. 54
Can the Supply of Natural Resources—Especially Energy—Really Be Infinite? Yes!
pp. 73
The Grand Theory
pp. 84
Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975?
pp. 97
What Are the Limits on Food Production?
pp. 109
The Worldwide Food Situation Now:
pp. 127
Are We Losing Ground?
pp. 139
Two Bogeymen:
pp. 151
Water, Wood, Wetlands—and What Next?
pp. 162
When Will We Run Out of Oil? Never!
pp. 182
Today’s Energy Issues
pp. 203
Nuclear Power:
pp. 212
A Dying Planet? How the Media Have Scared the Public
pp. 223
The Peculiar Theory of Pollution
pp. 233
Whither the History of Pollution?
pp. 241
Pollution Today:
pp. 258
Bad Environmental and Resource Scares
pp. 275
Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us?
pp. 283
Should We Conserve Resources for Others’ Sakes? What Kinds of Resources Need Conservation?
pp. 297
Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, and Free-Market Alternatives
pp. 311
Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts
pp. 326
What Will Future Population Growth Be?
pp. 342
Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats?
pp. 357
Population Growth and the Stock of Capital
pp. 367
Population’s Effects on Technology and Productivity
pp. 391
Economies of Scope and Education
pp. 399
Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations
pp. 412
Population Growth and Land
pp. 429
Are People an Environmental Pollution?
pp. 439
Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust?
pp. 459
A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, or Psychological and Social Well-Being
pp. 471
The Big Economic Picture:
pp. 491
The Big Picture II:
pp. 513
How the Comparisons People Make Affect Their Beliefs about Whether Things Are Getting Better or Worse
pp. 519
The Rhetoric of Population Control:
pp. 537
The Reasoning behind the Rhetoric
pp. 547
Ultimately—What Are Your Values?
pp. 557
The Key Values
pp. 578
Conclusion.
pp. 593
Epilogue.
pp. 617
Notes
pp. 653
References
pp. 691
Index
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