Natural resources and the macroeconomy / edited by J. Peter Neary and Sweder Van Wijnbergen

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Natural Resources and the Macroeconomy", organized by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and held in London on 10-11 June, 1985.

Financial support for the conference was provided by the Ford Foundation, to whom we express our gratitude. We wish in particular to thank Tom Bayard of the Foundation's staff for his interest in the project. We would also like to thank the CEPR's permanent staff for their constant encouragement and support, especially Richard Portes. who first suggested holding a conference on this topic; Monica Allen. who ensured the smooth running of the conference: Stephen Yeo, who oversaw the preparation of the conference volume; and Wendy Thomp son, who supervised the conference's financial arrangements. Thanks are also due to Tim Callan of Nuffield College, Oxford who acted as rapporteur for the conference and to John Black of the University of Exeter, whose Pplication. the book's swift work as Production Editor was essential to

Finally, our major debt is to the authors and conference participants whose enthusiastic cooperation and adherence to deadlines ensured that the volume provides an accurate reflection of the profession's current thinking on the paradoxes of prosperity,