Toward a New Iron Age?: Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion

by William D. Nordhaus, Tjalling C. Koopmans, Robert B. Gordon

Experts agree that the earth will eventually run out of certain low-cost, nonrenewable resources, possibly as early as a century from now. Will the transition to reliance on other, more abundant resources be smooth or discontinuous? Might industrial societies experience a marked decline in living standards--a radically different kind of society from the one we now know? Geologists maintain that once inexpensive high-grade resources are exhausted,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674898184
• ISBN13: 9780674898189
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"