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Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality and Resource Scarcity

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  • Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh

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This discussion paper has resulted in a chapter in: (R.U. Ayres, D. Simpson, and M. Toman (eds.)), Scarcity and Growth in the Millennium, 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 177-97.

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  • Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, 2004. "Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality and Resource Scarcity," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 04-048/3, Tinbergen Institute.
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    Growth; evolutionary economics;

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    • O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
    • E11 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian

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