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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Perspectives on conservation. Baltimore, Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins Press [1958] (OCoLC)608574331 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Kenneth Galbraith; Henry Jarrett; Resources for the Future. |
| OCLC Number: | 964723 |
| Notes: | "Based on the papers prepared by authorities who participated in the 1958 RFF forum." |
| Description: | xii, 260 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Main lines of thought and action / Ernest S. Griffith -- Pioneers and principles / Samuel T. Dana -- The changing context of the problems / Henry C. Hart -- The mythology of conservation / Samuel P. Hays -- The inexhaustible resource of technology / Thomas B. Nolan -- Technology on the land / Byron T. Shaw -- Malthus' main thesis still holds / Robert C. Cook -- The barrier of cost / Harry A. Curtis -- How much should a country consume? / John K. Galbraith -- The crucial value problems / Philip M. Hauser -- Ethics, aesthetics, and the balance of nature / Paul B. Sears -- The city's challenge in resource use / Luther Gulick -- Some problems in city planning / Joseph L. Intermaggio -- Our need of breathing space / Sigurd F. Olson -- Selective opportunism, the surest way / Abel Wolman -- The political economy of resource use / Edward S. Mason -- The broadening base of resource policy / Robert W. Hartley -- Policy criteria for petroleum / Minor S. Jameson, Jr. -- The waning role of laissez faire / Bushrod W. Allin -- Broader bases for choice : the next key move / Gilbert F. White -- Can we still afford a separate resources policy? / Charles M. Hardin -- The plus side of the record / Robert E. Merriam -- The federal responsibility for leadership / William Pincus. |
| Responsibility: | by John Kenneth Galbraith [and others] Edited by Henry Jarrett. |
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