Luck or Skill? An Examination of the Ehrlich - Simon Bet
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- Kiel, Katherine & Matheson, Victor & Golembiewski, Kevin, 2010. "Luck or skill? An examination of the Ehrlich-Simon bet," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(7), pages 1365-1367, May.
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Keywords
Natural resources; scarcity; Neo-Malthusian;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q30 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
- Q31 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2009-08-08 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2009-08-08 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2009-08-08 (Microeconomics)
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