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The economics of exhaustible resources

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Reprinted fromThe Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 39, pp. 137–175 (1931) with the permisson of the University of Chicago Press.

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Hotelling, H. The economics of exhaustible resources. Bltn Mathcal Biology 53, 281–312 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464433

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