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|title=Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation

|author=Edward B Barbier

|date=December 2010

|isbn=978-0521701655

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Scarcity and Frontiers is an ambitious, fascinating book that examines how the world's economies have developed by exploiting natural resources. Throughout history, states have responded to natural resource scarcity by developing new frontiers, hence the title. The book begins with the development of agriculture along the banks of the Nile and runs right through to the present day, finally questioning whether we are entering a new era of natural resource scarcity.