Nature : an economic history /
From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Economy and evolution : a road map
- The evolving economy
- Human and nonhuman economies compared
- The economics of everyday : consumption and the role of enemies in nature
- The economics of everyday : production and the role of resources
- The ingredients of power and opportunity : technology and organization
- The ingredients of power and opportunity : the environment
- The geography of power and innovation
- Breaking down and building up : the role of disturbance
- Patterns in history : toward greater reach and power
- The future of growth and power
- The geological time scale.