?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F5010%2F&rft.title=The+Origins+of+American+Resource+Abundance&rft.creator=David%2C+P.A.&rft.creator=Wright%2C+G.&rft.description=American+manufacturing+exports+became+increasingly+resource-intensive+over+the+very+period%2C+roughly+1880-1920%2C+during+which+the+U.S.+ascended+to+the+position+of+world+leadership+in+manufacturing.+This+paper+challenges+the+simplistic+view+that+the+resource-intensity+of+manufacturing+reflected+the+country's+abundant+geological+endowment+of+mineral+deposits.+Instead%2C+it+shows+that+in+the+century+following+1850+the+U.S.+exploited+its+natural+resource+potentials+to+a+far+greater+extent+than+other+countries+and+did+so+across+virtually+the+entire+range+of+industrial+minerals.+It+argues+that+%22natural+resource+abundance%22+was+an+endogenous%2C+%22socially+constructed%22+condition+that+was+not+geologically+pre-ordained.+It+examines+the+complex+legal%2C+institutional%2C+technological+and+organizational+adaptations+that+shaped+the+U.S.+supply-responses+to+the+expanding+domestic+and+international+industrial+demands+for+minerals+and+mineral-products.+It+suggests+that+the+existence+of+strong+%22positive+feedbacks%22--even+in+the+exploitation+of+depletable+resources--was+responsible+for+the+explosive+growth+of+the+American+minerals+economy.&rft.publisher=WP-96-015&rft.date=1996-02&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F5010%2F1%2FWP-96-015.pdf&rft.identifier=++David%2C+P.A.+%26+Wright%2C+G.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F2526.html%3E++(1996).++The+Origins+of+American+Resource+Abundance.+++IIASA+Working+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+WP-96-015+++++