Scarcity and growth : the economics of natural resource availability. Unit cost of extractive products.

Barnett, Harold J. Barnett, Harold J. Morse, Chandler. Morse, Chandler.

1978

CIENA
178

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THE UNIT COST OF EXTRACTIVE PRODUCTS. SETTING FOR THE QUANTITATIVE TEST. TEST OF THE HYPOTHESIS. Agriculture. Minerals. Forest. Commercial fishing. Extractive output as an aggregate. THE WIGHTING SYSTYM. SUBTITUTIONS OF LESS COSTLY COMMODITIES. Unit laobr costs in the agricultural and mineral sectors. Cost-induced substitutions in foresty. Substitution for agricultural and forest land. THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN TRADE. Extractive goods as an aggregate. Foreign trade in agricultural goods. Foreign trade in minerals. Foreign trade in forest products. NATURAL RESOURCE AVAILABILITY. Availabilit of agricltural and timber acreage. Availability of minerals. TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE RESOURCE CONVERSION FUNCTION AND IN EXTRACTIVE PRODUCTION. Technological change in agricultural and timber products. Technological change in the mineral goods sector. CONCLUSIONS OF OUR QUANTITATIVE TEST.

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ESTADOS UNIDOS; RECURSOS NATURALES; CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO; ANALISIS ESTADISTICO; AGRICULTURA; MINERALES; RECURSOS FORESTALES; PESCA;