Toward a new Iron Age? : quantitative modeling of resource exhaustion / Robert B. Gordon ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonrenewable natural resources--Mathematical models.

Nonrenewable natural resources.

Resource allocation--Mathematical models.

Resource allocation.

Copper industry and trade--Mathematical models.

Copper industry and trade.

Physical Description:

vi, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.

Summary:

Experts agree that the earth will eventually run out of certain low-cost, nonrenewable resources, possibly as early as a century from now. Will the transition to reliance on other, more abundant resources be smooth or discontinuous? Might industrial societies experience a marked decline in living standards--a radically different kind of society from the one we now know? Geologists maintain that once inexpensive high-grade resources are exhausted, economic growth will slow. Economists are more optimistic: they believe that new technologies and materials will be substituted rapidly enough to prevent major economic dislocations.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 163-168.

ISBN:

0674898184

OCLC:

14239870