The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment

Julian L. Simon (see also vita, bio, and writings)
College of Business and Management, University of Maryland, College Park

Introduction
Preface
Chapter 1: The Amazing Theory of Raw-Material Scarcity
Chapter 2: Why Are Material-Technical Resource Forecasts So Often Wrong?
Chapter 3: Can The Supply Of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes!
Chapter 4: The Grand Theory
Chapter 5: Famine 1995? Or 2025? Or 1975?
Chapter 6: What Are The Limits on Food Production?
Chapter 7: The Worldwide Food Situation Now: Shortage Crises, Glut Crises, And Government
Chapter 8: Are We Losing Ground?
Chapter 9: Two Bogeymen: "Urban Sprawl" and Soil Erosion
Chapter 10: Water, Wood, Wetlands--And What Next?
Chapter 11: When Will We Run Out Of Oil? Never!
Chapter 12: Today's Energy Issues
Chapter 13: Nuclear Power: Tomorrow's Greatest Energy Opportunity
Chapter 14: Dying Planet? How The Media Have Scared The Public
Chapter 15: The Peculiar Theory Of Pollution
Chapter 16: Whither The History Of Pollution?
Chapter 17: Pollution Today: Specific Trends And Issues
Chapter 18: Bad Environmental And Resource Scares
Chapter 19: Will Our Consumer Wastes Bury Us?
Chapter 20: Should We Conserve Resources For Others' Sakes? What Kinds Of Resources Need Conservation?
Chapter 21: Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation, And Free-Market Alternatives
Chapter 22: Standing Room Only? The Demographic Facts
Chapter 23: What Will Future Population Growth Be?
Chapter 24: Do Humans Breed Like Flies? Or Like Norwegian Rats?
Chapter 25: Population Growth And The Stock Of Capital
Chapter 26: Population's Effects On Technology And Productivity
Chapter 27: Population's Effects II: Economies Of Scope And Education
Chapter 28: Population Growth, Natural Resources, And Future Generations
Chapter 29: Population Growth And Land
Chapter 30: Are People An Environmental Pollution?
Chapter 31: Are Humans Causing Species Holocaust?
Chapter 32: A Greater Population Does Not Damage Health, Or Psychological And Social Well-Being
Chapter 33: The Big Economic Picture: Population Growth And Living Standards In MDCs
Chapter 34: The Big Picture II: LDCs
Chapter 35: The Finances Of Population Control
Chapter 36: Who Is Organized To Put Pressure On Whom?
Chapter 37: The Rhetoric Of Population Control: Does The End Justify The Means?
Chapter 38: The Reasoning Behind The Rhetoric
Chapter 39: Ultimately - What Are Your Values?
Chapter 40: The Key Values
Conclusion
Epilogue: My Critics and I
References A-K
References L-Z

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