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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- M. H. Khalil Timamy, 2005. "Debate," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(104-105), pages 383-393, June.
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- Lawn, Philip, 2010. "On the Ehrlich-Simon bet: Both were unskilled and Simon was lucky," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(11), pages 2045-2046, September.
- Gale Pooley & Marian Tupy, 2020. "Luck or insight? The Simon–Ehrlich bet re‐examined," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(2), pages 277-280, June.
- Stan Becker, 2013. "Has the World Really Survived the Population Bomb? (Commentary on “How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History”)," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 50(6), pages 2173-2181, December.
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Natural resources; scarcity; Neo-Malthusian;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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