Economic growth and resources. Volume 3, Natural resources : proceedings of the fifth World Congress of the International Economic Association held in Tokyo, Japan

Mogens Boserup's name appears on the title page as one of the two editors of this volume. He had played the major role in planning this part of the work of the Tokyo Congress, had contributed the very valuable paper which appears below as Chapter 4, and had been an active participant in the discussions of the other papers here printed. He had agreed to act as editor of this volume in collaboration with Christopher Bliss and had already started work on it before his sudden and unexpected death in the early days of 1978. This book and his chapter in it represent, in effect, Mogens Boserup's last contribution to economics. A scholar of great distinction and learning, he Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Transition from Exhaustible to Renewable or Inexhaustible Resources....Pages 3-11 Energy and Future Economic Growth....Pages 12-32 Future Capital Requirements of Alternative Energy Strategies: Global Perspectives....Pages 33-48 Are there really Depletable Resources?....Pages 49-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Are we at a Turning Point in the World Demographic Situation?....Pages 67-73 Resources for Increasing World Food Production....Pages 74-84 Will the Long-run Global Supply of Industrial Minerals be Adequate? A Case Study of Iron, Aluminium and Copper....Pages 85-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth....Pages 107-132 The Role of Technological Change in United States Economic Growth....Pages 133-145 R & D, Knowledge, and Externalities: An Approach to the Puzzle of Disparate Productivity Growth Rates Among Manufacturing Industries....Pages 146-161 Induced Innovation in Agriculture....Pages 162-189 The Impact of Agricultural Price Policies on Demand and Supply, Incomes, and Imports; an Experimental Model for South Asia....Pages 190-205 Back Matter....Pages 206-210