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The ostrich factor : our population myopia /
Garrett Hardin, one of our leading thinkers on problems of human overpopulation, here assails the recklessness and basic ecological ignorance of economists and others who champion the idea of unbounded growth. Hardin delivers an uncompromising critique of mainstream economic thinking. Science has lo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pursuit of objectivity
- Tertullian's blessing
- How to lie with learned words
- Foundations of activist dcience: By right or by default?
- Stormy marriage of economics and ecology
- Consequentialism: Nature's morality
- Natural selection: God's choice
- Altruism
- Coercion
- Diseconomies of scale: Ostrich myopia
- Dream of one world
- Russell's theorem
- Martian view of Malthus
- Equity, equality, and affirmative action
- Multiculturalism: For and against
- Ambivalent value of growth
- Extended reach of Gresham's law
- Summary: Can our ostriches find the will?
- Notes.