Economic theory and exhaustible resources
by Heal, G. M., Dasgupta, P. S.
fromCambridge economic handbooks
Addressing the economics of waste
The Workshop held by OECD in October 2003, in Paris, France, brought together leading experts to take stock of "the state of the art" on the economics of waste and to help select topics on which the OECD could usefully do additional work. The book comprises the Workshop papers b…
"Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chap…
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Peasants, economics, political economy. The neoclassical theory of farm production. Elements of peasant political economy the theory of the optimising peasant. The profit maximizing peasant. The risk-averse peasant. The drudgery-averse peasant. The farm household peasant. The sh…