Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgement, Introduction and Guide to Organisation of the Book, 1. The Early Days, 2. Malthusian Problem, 3. Ricardian Stagnation, 4. Socialism, Marxism and the Environment, 5. Natural Resources and the Environment in Neo-Classical Tradition, 6. Interventionist school on natural resources and the environment, 7. Market Environmentalism Based on Property Rights, 8. Empirical Studies on Scarcity After Second World War, 9. Spaceship Earth, 10. Sustainability Debate, 11. Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Environmental Degradation, 12. Conclusion, Bibliography, Glossary, Subject and Author Indices.

About the Author

Erhun Kula

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"Kula's historiography is a highly readable and concise, yet impressively comprehensive, account of the development of this increasingly important branch of economics."
-"Journal of Economic Issues