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Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80 % Improvements in Resource Productivity

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    This text was first published in: Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Charlie Hargroves, Michael H. Smith, Cheryl Desha, Peter Stasinopoulos: Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80 % Improvements in Resource Productivity (London: Routledge, Earthscan, 2009). ISBN: 978-1844075911. Permission to republish this text was granted by Ms. Adele Parker, Rights Manager, Taylor & Francis Royalties Department, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hampshire, UK on 21 March 2014. The book may be purchased at: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415848602/.

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    Jacob van Gelderen and Samuel de Wolff are the two Dutch economists who proposed long-term cycles as early as 1913, but their work, written in Dutch, remained unknown to N. Kondratiev, J. Schumpeter and others and was translated into English only recently.

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von Weizsäcker, E.U., Hargroves, K.‘., Smith, M.H., Desha, C., Stasinopoulos, P. (2014). Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80 % Improvements in Resource Productivity. In: von Weizsäcker, E. (eds) Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03662-5_17

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