Sustainable economic growth and exhaustible resources: A model and estimation for the US

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 79-92

  Scholl, Almuth ^a   Semmler, Willi ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Empirical Macroeconomics   (Germany)

^c NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Economic growth; Intergenerational; Resource

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844366562     PISSN: 10260226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1026022021000000248     Document Type: Article

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