Lecture Microeconomics (20/e): Chapter 17 - Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean M. Flynn

Chapter 17 - Natural resource and energy economics. In this chapter we start looking at the demand for natural resources, including energy, as the world’s population changes. First we will investigate the changes in the global population and what this might mean in terms of the availability of natural resources. In this analysis, resource consumption per capita is included. We will discuss the fact that economists don’t worry that the world will run out of energy and the alternative energies that might be available.