The Lean Years: Politics in the Age of Scarcity

By Richard J. Barnet

Book Overview

Analyzes the crucial issues of the immediate future--the scarcity of natural resources and the depletion of energy supplies--and examines the new economic, political, and military orders that are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671224603
• ISBN13: 9780671224608
• Release Date: May 1980
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

No change since 1980

Barnet wrote a book in 1980 that could be reprinted almost as is with a publishing date 30 years later. He writes of issues of energy, water, food, and most important labor in a global economy. It is one of those books that warns. Do something world, do something NOW or terrible things are going to happen. What is not mentioned is terror that may be a result of these inequality issues.