TY - BOOK AU - Barnet,Richard J. TI - The lean years: politics in the age of scarcity SN - 0671224603 AV - HC 55 B261l 1980 U1 - 333.7 PY - 1980/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Natural resources KW - World politics KW - 1975-1985 KW - Recursos Naturales KW - La polĂ­tica mundial KW - United States KW - Economic conditions KW - 1971-1981 N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-336 N2 - The Lean Years is about natural resources and political power. It is about the crucial issues at the center of the news stories of today: the scarcity of natural resources, the growing depletion of existing energy supplies, and the economic, political, and military upheavals that are rapidly emerging in response to these problems. The Lean years shows how financial speculation in the world's minerals results inflation, and how the world's major grain producers contribute to the maldistribution of food. The Lean Years reveals why military power cannot keep the oil flowing in a world where war increasingly threatens, and why the world unemployment crisis is the time bomb of the eighties. -- Back cover ER -