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1711. The Mining Law

      A Study in Perpetual Motion

      By John D. Leshy

      In this highly entertaining as well as profoundly scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law, John Leshy has produced both a legal treatise and a history of the West written from the vantage point of mineral exploration and production. The Mining Law illuminates some of the more obscure corners of...

      Published December 31st 1986 by RFF Press
1712. The Living Economy

      Edited by Paul Ekins

      Published September 17th 1986 by Routledge
1713. The Economic Value of Water

      By Diana C. Gibbons

      Gibbons examines the water supply problem through five case studies. The problems faced by these regions and the methods suggested to overcome them provide excellent models for the entire United States. The case studies---typically, expanding supplies---but economic efficiency principles lead to...

      Published December 31st 1985 by RFF Press
1714. The Rice Economy of Asia

      By Randolph Barker, Robert W. Herdt, Beth Rose

      To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II, but particularly since the introduction of new...

      Published December 31st 1984 by RFF Press
1715. Energy, Foresight, and Strategy

      By Thomas J. Sargent

      In Energy, Foresight, and Strategy, Thomas Sargent and his collaborators have produced a highly rigorous treatment of 'rational expectations' theory and its application to the study of energy markets. These six essays use dynamic games to study a variety of issues important to analysts and...

      Published December 31st 1984 by RFF Press
1716. Primates of the World

      Distribution, Abundance and Creation

      By Wolfheim J H

      Published August 25th 1983 by Routledge
1717. Collective Action

      By Russell Hardin

      Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests...

      Published May 31st 1982 by RFF Press
1718. Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 15

      Edited by J.C. Vogel, E.A. Voigt, T.C. Partridge, E.M. van Zinderen Bakker, J.A.K. Coetzee

      Series: Palaeoecology of Africa

      This reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa....

      Published December 31st 1981 by Taylor & Francis
1719. The Southwest Under Stress

      National Resource Development Issues in a Regional Setting

      By Allen V. Kneese, F. Lee Brown

      Southwest Under Stress examines the development-environment conflict in the four contiguous states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. It emphasizes three issues with implications that extend far beyond the Southwest: water---its quantity, quality, and allocation; environment---how and to...

      Published December 31st 1980 by RFF Press