Nature in the history of economic thought : how natural resources became an economic concept / Nathaniel Wolloch.

From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Mercantilism and natural resources
Pre-classical enlightenment developments
The physiocrats and the bread riots
From Adam Smith to classical political economy
John Stuart Mill and the idea of progress
Managing nature in the enlightenment
Ricardo and Malthus on the utilization of nature
Jean-Baptiste Say and other contemporaries
John Stuart Mill's attitude toward nature
Epilogue: from socialism to modernity.