Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources

by P. S. Dasgupta, G. M. Heal

Overview

A presentation of the economic principles relating to the use and management of natural resources, including analysis of optimal use policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521297615
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/31/1980
Series:	Cambridge Economic Handbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

1. A preview; 2. Resource allocation in a timeless world; 3. Externalities; 4. Intertemporal equilibrium; 5. Renewable resources: some ecological and environmental models; 6. Exhaustible resources: an introduction; 7. Production with exhaustible resources; 8. Resource depletion and capital accumulation in a competitive economy accumulation in a competitive economy; 9. Measureability, comparability and the aggregation of intergenerational welfares; 10. The optimal depletion of exhaustible; 11. Imperfect competition and exhaustible resources; 12. Taxation of exhaustible resources; 13. Uncertainty, information and the allocation of risk; 14. Uncertainty and the allocation of resources; 15. price movements in resource markets; 16. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.