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«Besides, resource endowment is a biased concept. The notion of what resources matter to economic change depends (for most economic historians) on what resources mattered for nineteenth-century Britain. The critical natural resource is fossil fuel. The book will claim that water was a more valuable economic resource for the tropical monsoon regions than energy and that water extraction had a more profound impact on local environments than the burning of fuels».
(Tirthankar Roy, Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate. London: The MIT Press, 2022).
«Besides, resource endowment is a biased concept. The notion of what resources matter to economic change depends (for most economic historians) on what resources mattered for nineteenth-century Britain. The critical natural resource is fossil fuel. The book will claim that water was a more valuable economic resource for the tropical monsoon regions than energy and that water extraction had a more profound impact on local environments than the burning of fuels».
(Tirthankar Roy, Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate. London: The MIT Press, 2022).