ArticlesPolicy Consideration Materials Supply: The Impact of Human Institutions By James Boyd See allHide authors and affiliations Science 20 Feb 1976:Vol. 191, Issue 4228, pp. 650-653DOI: 10.1126/science.191.4228.650 James Boyd Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Article Info & Metrics eLetters PDF This is a PDF-only article. The first page of the PDF of this article appears above.