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UNINA9910825333203321 |
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Titolo |
The limits to scarcity : contesting the politics of allocation / / edited by Lyla Mehta |
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London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Earthscan, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-53893-3 |
1-84977-546-X |
1-299-28622-4 |
1-136-53894-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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Science in society series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Scarcity |
Welfare economics |
Supply and demand |
Resource allocation |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. Why does scarcity matter? -- pt. II. Economics and scarcity -- pt. III. Resource scarcity, institutional arrangements and policy responses : food, agriculture, water and energy. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact of our lives - be it of housing, food, water or oil. But has the conception of scarcity been politicized, naturalized, and universalized in academic and policy debates? Has overhasty recourse to scarcity evoked a standard set of market, institutional and technological solutions which have blocked out |
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