Resource Conservation and Economic Stability

Abstract

I. Objectives of the study, 412. — II. Influence of economic instability upon conservation: four major effects, 415; wasteful soil depletion, 417; wasteful mineral depletion, 423; implications for public policy, 426. — III. Conservation potentialities of commodity agreements: in general, 427; historical evidence, 432; the future, 442. — IV. Contribution of conservation policy to economic stability: general requirements, 445; postwar timing, 449.