1st Edition

Economic Theories of Exhaustible Resources

By T. J. C. Robinson Copyright 1989
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1989. Professor Robinson begins by examining natural resource classification and the nature of return in mining, giving particular emphasis to different sources of long-run price changes in mining and their relevance for user cost and the economic treatment for exhaustible resources. He then traces the development of the economic theory of exhaustible resources from the... Read more

Foreword;  Part 1: Some Conceptual and Theoretical Issues;  1. Introduction  2. The Classification of Natural Resources  3. The Nature of Return in Mining;  Part 2: The Economics of Exhaustible Resources;  4. Adam Smith  5. David Ricardo  6. Smith and Ricardo Compared  7. Henry Carey  8. J. S. Mill  9. Karl Marx  10. W. R. Sorley  11. Alfred Marshall  12. L. C. Gray  13. Gustav Cassel  14. Conclusion;  Bibliographical References;  Index

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T. J. C. Robinson