Turning point: The end of exponential growth?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1188-1203

  Ayres, Robert U ^a,b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33845228067     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2006.07.002     Document Type: Note

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