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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate hut at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups—Henry Hazlitt

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

How Western Environmentalism Shaped China’s One Child Policy

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Ideas have consequences. China’s one child policy hasn’t been a communist idea, writes author Matthew Ridley. Instead this has emanate...

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Has Thomas Malthus been a free market friend or a foe?

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Has preeminent demographer and economist Thomas Robert Malthus, whom has been widely criticized for his population time bomb theory, been ...

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Why the Neo-Malthusian Premise of “Peak Resources” are Misguided

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Writing at the Daily Reckoning , Chris Mayer, managing editor for several newsletters has a rejoinder to neo-Malthusians led by GMO’s Jerem...

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

7 Billion People: Boon or Bane?

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The United Nations says that world population have reached 7 billion. In attempting to visualize the impact of 7 billion people The Econom...

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Can We Survive a World with 9 billion people?

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Prolific author Matt Ridley says yes (bold emphasis mine)... We trebled yields in the last 60 years without taking extra land under th...

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