TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barbier,Edward
TI  - Scarcity and frontiers: how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation
SN  - 9780521877732
U1  - 333.7  
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Scarcity
KW  - Economic development
N1  - 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?
ER  -