- Bib ID:
- 2472252
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hardin, Garrett, 1915-
- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- viii, 168 ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195122747 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Pursuit of Objectivity
- 2. Tertullian's Blessing
- 3. How to Lie with Learned Words
- 4. Foundations of Activist Science: By Right or By Default?
- 5. The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology
- 6. Consequentialism: Nature's Morality
- 7. Natural Selection: God's Choice
- 8. Altruism
- 9. Coercion
- 10. Diseconomies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia
- 11. The Dream of One World
- 12. Russell's Theorem
- 13. A Martian View of Malthus
- 14. Equity, Equality, and Affirmative Action
- 15. Multiculturalism: For and Against
- 16. Ambivalent Value of Growth
- 17. The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law
- 18. Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2085 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2015
- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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