...Antoine Missemer; Marion Gaspard; Roberto P. Ferreira da Cunha Harold Hotelling’s 1931 article on the economics of exhaustible resources is considered groundbreaking in the history of nonrenewable resource analysis. Hotelling’s innovation has been characterized by comparing his work with other...

...- agement of populations of ocean animals in terms of both linear and nonlinear dynamic adjustment processes (“fishery model the question of “nonrenewable natural resources”-oligopoly or monopoly in the oil market (Hotelling); whether production with nonrenewable resources leads to world catastrophe...

..., the environment and nature, including renewable and nonrenewable resources, species, etc. Would it be unreasonable therefore to suggest, on the basis of the above litany that economics would do well to assess its relation to nature and its responsibility to help man cope with the environmental...

..., and they do think about these things in their own way. There is already the beginning of growth theory with nonrenewable resources, with renewable resources, and there has even been some attention to the more diffi cult problem of the transition from one to the other. Once again, however, we need some...

... Mises’s argument of the need for a single commensurat- ing unit, but in the article his argument was different. To begin with, note his concern, in setting out the economic plan, with the “non-wasteful” use of, importantly, nonrenewable resources: The socialist economy, by contrast, is concerned...

... nineteenth century. Although Swan (1956) and, particularly, Meade (1961) had previously studied the analytic consequences of a fi nite supply of land for the neoclassical growth model, it was only in the 1970s that nonrenewable natural resources were inte- grated into growth economics (the topic...

... itself. Although the contrary doctrine of the constancy of the powers of nature won out, it might not be too farfetched to see the current interest in entropy economics as in some ways a revival of the senescence doctrine. Insofar as our economy has become more dependent on nonrenewable...

... was novel. On his free trade principles, coal exports should not be restricted, but as coal was a nonrenewable resource, its exportation could increase the welfare of the present generation at the expense of future generations. To compensate them for this, the national debt should be reduced, thus...

... n.d.a). This explains Social Costs’ environmental focus, that is, its five chapters on issues such as air and water pollution, renewable and nonrenewable resources, and resource utilization. This special attentiveness to nature and the environment earned him the recognition as one...

... available, he decided to collect 360 History of Political Economy 30:2 (1998) all the evidence he could find about the operation of the checks his the- ory told him must have been in operation at all times and places. The relation between population and resources (nonrenewable, or renew...

... large—and began doing some work of my own on the problem of opti- mal social management of a stock of a nonrenewable but essential resource. (Solow 1974a, 1–2) The work to which Solow referred here was published in the “Symposium on the Economics of Exhaustible Resources,” a special issue...

... status has been com- pared to Hotelling’s rule in nonrenewable natural resource economics as a basis of normative and positive economic models of forest manage- ment (Hanley, Shogren, and White 1997, 338), whereas its derivative, Correspondence may be addressed to Esa-Jussi Viitala, Finnish...

... for the National Resources Plan- ning Board, the Office of Strategic Services, and the Federal Reserve System, directing reconversion work for the Office of War Mobiliza- tion, and working as a fiscal analyst for the Bureau of the Budget. He was “very much of an economic theorist and very definitely...

...). That was then a basis for nonrenewal for a naturalized U.S. citizen (he had taken U.S. citizenship in 1934). Thus Currie did not “flee” the United States and “renounce” his U.S. citizenship, as Haynes and Klehr (1999, 150, 413) allege. The United 9. Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh (1996) wrote a book...