Scarcity

Cleveland, C. J. and D. I. Stern.  "Natural Resource Scarcity Indicators: An Ecological Economic Synthesis."  In Cleveland, C.J., D.I. Stern, and R. Constanza (Eds).  The Economics of Nature and the Nature of Economics.  MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001, pp. 238-261.

Cleveland, C. J.  and M. Ruth. “When, Where and by How Much do Biophysical Limits Constrain the Economics     Process?  A Survey of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegens’ Contribution to Ecological Economics.”  Ecological Economics  22, 3 (September, 1997):  203-223.

DeGregori, T.R. "Resources are Not; They Become:  An Institutional Theory."  J. Econ. Issues  221,2 (Sept 1987):  1241-1263.

Devarajan, S. and A.C. Fisher.  “Hotelling’s ‘Economics of Exhaustible Resources’:  Fifty Years Later.”  J. Econ. Lit.  14 (March, 1981): 65-73. 

Farrow, S. and J. A Krautkraemer. “Economic Indicators of Resource Scarcity:  Comment.” J. Env. Econ. Mgmt.  19 (1990):  191-194.

Goeller, H.E. and A. M. Weinberg.  "The Age of Substitutability."  Amer. Econ. Rev.  (Dec. 1978):  1-11.

Hotelling, H.  "The Economics of Exhaustible Resources."  J. Pol. Econ.  39,2 (April 1931): 137-175.

Lomborg, B.  The Skeptical Environmentalist:  Measuring the Real State of the World.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 (first published in English, 2001). (Note: This book is included here due to the stir of controversy it has recently created on whether we live in a world of limits, or, much like Julian Simon argued at an earlier time, and Lomborg argues here, we live only within the limits of our own creativity).

Norgaard, R. B.  "Economic Indicators of Resource Scarcity:  A Critical Essay."   J. Env. Econ. Mgmt.  19 (1990):  19-25.

Norgaard, R. B.  “Economic Indicators of Resource Scarcity:  A More Critical Reply.”  J. Env. Econ. Mgmt.  19 (1990):  195-199.

Perrings, C. “An Optimal Path to Extinction?  Poverty and Resource Degradation in the Open Agrarian Economy.”  J. Dev. Econ.  30 (1989): 1-24

Peterson, F. M. and A. C. Fisher.  “The Exploitation of Extractive Resources:  A Survey.”   Econ. J. 87(December, 1977):  681-721.

Simon, J. L.  "Resources, Population and Environment:  An Oversupply of False Bad News."  Science  208 (June 27, 1980):  1431-1437.

Smith, V. Kerry. “The Evaluation of  Natural Resource Adequacy:  Elusive Quest or Frontier of Economic Analysis?”  Land Econ. 56,3 (August, 1980): 257-292.

Wright, G.  “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940.”  Amer. Econ. Rev.  80,4 (September, 1990):  651-668.

Young, J. T. "Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity?"  J. Environ. Econ. Mgmt.  21 (1991):  169-179.

Marginal Costs Do Increase (indicating scarcity in a most fundamental, entropic sort of way)

Burrows, P.  "Nonconvexities and the Theory of External Costs." In D. W. Bromley (Ed.), Handbook of Environmental Economics.  Cambridge, MA:  Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1995, pp. 243-271.

Lynne, G.D., K. Anaman, and C.F. Kiker.  "Irrigation Efficiency:  An Economic Interpretation."  J. Irr. and Drain. Engin. 113, 3 (Aug. 1987): 317-334.

Lynne, G.D., W.G. Boggess, and K.M. Portier.  "Irrigation Water Supply as a Bioeconomic Process."  So. J. Agr. Econ. 16 (Dec., 1984): 73-82.