Limits to growth: The case of Dutch prison capacity

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Baerveldt ◽  
Hans Bunkers
Keyword(s):  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Prison Capacity

The limits to growth and the limits of psychology.

1978 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 701-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Limits To Growth

Oil Prices: Limits to Growth and the Depth of Falling

2006 ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Bashmakov
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Output Ratio

This article deals with the determination of future oil prices. The approach used is based on the evaluation of purchasing power limits and allows to put the limits to monopolistic price setting. Several important findings are formulated: going beyond the upper thresholds of purchasing power stipulates negative relationship between energy costs and GDP growth rates, and this brings the dynamics to energy demand to price elasticity. This approach is also based on what the author calls the economics of constants and variables, i.e. on the existence of very stable macroeconomic proportions, which may be observed throughout the whole period of statistical observations (over 200 years). It provides grounds for two conclusions. First, the upper limit of energy costs to the gross output ratio is determined by the least acceptable profitability. Second, the theoretical postulate on substantial production factors substitution used in the production functions theory may be incorrect. In reality, the change of the economy technological basis leads to the substitution of low quality production factor by the same factor with a higher quality. Application of this approach brings the basis for predicting oil prices for 2006-2008.

Exploring the Futures of the Ummah

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Sohail Lnayatullah
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Global Models ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Poststructural Theory ◽  
The Future

This article is both a critique of ways of approaching the future and a presentation of scenarios of the Islamic world a generation ahead. The critique covers various global models, including The Club of Rome's classic Limits to Growth (L TG), 1 Mankind at the Turning Point (MTP), and World 2000, and other approaches to the understanding of the future. Drawing from poststructural theory, we ask: What is missing, who does the analysis privilege, and what epistemological frames or ways of knowing are accentuated, are made primary, by the models used? What can the Islamic world learn from these models? We attempt to go a step further than merely asking the Marxist class question of who benefits financially. For us, the issue is deeper. We are concerned with what knowledge frames and (more appropriately, from an Islamic per­spective) what civilizational frames are privileged, are considered more important. An appendix presents recommendations focused on making the Islamic urrunah more future oriented. However, global models are only one way of approaching or under­standing the future. There are other ways of approaching the study of the future from which can be derived specific assertions about issues, trends, and scenarios as to the likely and possible shape of the future. We also inquire into the utility of these models for better understanding the future of the Islamic ummah. We conclude with visions of the future of the ummah ...

The End is Nigh: Limits to Growth of the Nonprofit Sector

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse D. Lecy ◽  
Eric Van Holm
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Limits To Growth

The Limits to Growth: Ecological Determinants of Aggregate Mortality Rates Among Southern Real Estate Firms

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Mark La Gory
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Limits To Growth

McCulloch, Scrope, and Hodgskin: Nineteenth-Century Versions of Julian Simon

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Natural Resource Scarcity ◽  
Growing Population

In The Ultimate Resource (1981, 1996), and in many other publications over the last several decades, Julian Simon put forth controversial views regarding the connection between natural resource scarcity, population growth, and economic progress. Simon argued, in contrast to those espousing the limits to growth, that natural resources were not getting scarcer, but more abundant, and that a large and growing population was an asset rather than a liability in the pursuit of economic growth.

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