Limits to scarcity: contesting the politics of allocation /
edited by Lyla Mehta,
- London: Earthscan, 2010.
- xxvi,270p.
Foreword Steve Rayner Introduction Lyla Mehta -- Part 1: Why Does Scarcity Matter-- 1. The Scare, Naturalization and Politicization of Scarcity Lyla Mehta -- 2. Everybody's Got the Fever: Scarcity and US National Energy Policy Nicholas Xenos-- 3. The Ghosts of Malthus: Narratives and Mobilizations of Scarcity in the US Political Context Betsy Hartmann-- Part 2: Economics and Scarcity 4. Economics and Scarcity: With Amartya Sen as Point of Departure? Ben Fine -- 5. Deconstructing Economic Interpretations of Sustainable Development: Limits, Scarcity and Abundance Fred Luks -- 6. Water Can and Ought to Run Freely: Reflections on the Notion of 'Scarcity' in Economics Sajay Samuel and Jean Robert -- 7. A Bit of the Other: Why Scarcity Isn't All It's Cracked up to Be Michael Thompson -- Part 3: Resource Scarcity, Institutional Arrangements and Policy Responses: Food, Agriculture, Water and Energy -- 8. 'Scarcity' as Political Strategy: Reflections on Three Hanging Children Nicholas Hildyard -- 9. Seeing Scarcity: Understanding Soil Fertility in Africa Ian Scoones -- 10. Chronic Hunger: A Problem of Scarcity or Inequity? Erik Millstone -- 11. A Share Response to Water Scarcity: Moving beyond the Volumetric Bruce Lankford -- 12. Advocacy of Water Scarcity: Leakages in the Argument Jasveen Jairath -- 13. The Construction and Destruction of Scarcity in Development: Water and Power Experiences in Nepal Dipak Gyawali and Ajaya Dixit -- 14. Afterword: Looking beyond Scarcity? Lyla Mehta.
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. This title questions scarcity's taken-for-granted nature.
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Scarcity 2. Welfare economics 3. Supply and demand.