Resource Constraints and Global Growth Evidence from the Financial Sector [Hardcover]

With substantial risks arising from resource constraints on global growth, serious questions are being posed about how a scarcity of finite resources may impact global social and political fragility. The research which forms the core of this book focuses on how this scarcity will impact the financial sector, especially through insurance, pension and banking activities. The UK finance sector, which is considered to be amongst the most globalised, is placed under the microscope, and its approaches to food and oil are particularly noteworthy. Interviews with senior financial experts are analysed alongside more traditional quantitative economic analysis to explore potential future impacts, the scope of natural resource constraints and their impact on the economy.

Chapter 2. Economics and Natural Resource Constraints???????????????

2.1 Theories on Natural Resource Scarcity

2.2 Theories on Economic Growth

2.3 Natural Resources and Economic Growth

Chapter 3. Finance and Natural Resource Constraints?????

3.1 The UK Economy and Finance Sector??????????????

3.2 Financial System Regulation

3.3 Insurance

3.4 Pensions

3.5 Banking????????

Chapter 4. Exploring the validity of literature

4.2 Measurement of Natural Resource Scarcity?

4.3 Effects of Resource Scarcity on the Economy??????????????

4.4 Effect of Resource Scarcity on the Finance Sector

4.5 The Part of Finance Slƒ7