Hi Brian -- I think the following paper might be of use, and it is from a bit of an obscure publication. I want to mention, not only the paper, but also the search technique that I occasionally use to find academic information. The search engine is at http://www.scholar.google.com The titles that come up are often not in chronological order, and one may have to sift through multiple pages to find useful material, but I do find good information from that source from time to time.
Here is the title and abstract that I thought might be useful for your library: International Tax and Public Finance Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. ISSN: 0927-5940 (Paper) 1573-6970 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/BF00877504 Issue: Volume 2, Number 2 Date: August 1995 Pages: 319 - 340 Entropy, environment, and endogenous economic growth Sjak Smulders1 (1) Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands Abstract This paper investigates the proper modeling of the interaction between economic growth and environmental problems, summarizes under which conditions unlimited economic growth with limited natural resources is feasible, and describes how sustainable growth can be achieved. It synthesizes the results from various environmental endogenous growth models. The physical dimension and the value dimension of economic activity have to be treated as conceptually distinct. Accumulation of natural variables is bounded due to biophysical laws (notably, the entropy law). However, economic value may grow through the substitution of reproducible human inputs for natural inputs. The properties of knowledge, which is the primary human input, do not contradict unlimited new knowledge creation. Key words economic growth - environment - entropy - knowledge creation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sjak Smulders Email: J.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep up the good work! Stan Moore San Geronimo, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
