The Return of Scarcity
Strategies for an Economic Future

The essays in this 1990 book link widely shared environmental concerns to an original and penetrating analysis of contemporary economic trends.

Herbert Cole Coombs (Author)

9780521368964, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 June 1990

184 pages
22 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.298 kg

A former Chancellor of the Australian National University former Governor of the Reserve Bank and adviser to several prime ministers, Dr H. C. 'Nugget' Coombs is a distinguished economist who has recently worked on the related areas of economics of resource use, resource allocation and teh environment. The essays in this 1990 book link widely shared environmental concerns to an original and penetrating analysis of contemporary economic trends.

1. Towards a sustainable society
2. Scarcity, wealth and income
3. Matching ecological and economic realities
4. Science and technology - for what purpose?
5. Economic and ecological issues in resource management
6. Resource management and environmental law
7. The quality of life and it's assessment
8. Is democracy alive and well?
9. Technology, economic change and political strategy.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC]