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...Club of Rome's fervent (and flawed) argument that as population increases, resources will soon run out if industrial development rushes on unchecked. One of the few academics who have rallied to the pro-growth side of the debate so far has been Britain's Wilfred Beckerman, a witty, long-haired Oxford economist who has emerged as a kind of St. George against those he calls "the eco-doomsters...
Forceful Rebuttal. Beckerman's 1975 book, Two Cheers for the Affluent Society, has become one of the most forceful rebuttals of the doomsday forecasts. He argues that the doomsayers have not taken account of how the market system can motivate public and private enterprise to develop successful alternatives. As for population, says he, birth rates will fall dramatically as living standards rise, especially in Third World countries. Food shortages will fade as production techniques improve. Pollution can be controlled when it is recognized that the problem is not growth but a misallocation of resources. Says he: "Because...
...Leisure, Equality and Welfare, an essay soon to be published by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Beckerman challenges another notion dear to many Club of Rome theorists - that G.N.P. is inadequate as a broad measure of how well a country's citizens are faring...
Screenplay by BARRY BECKERMAN...
...Barry Beckerman's screenplay offers Director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) several good chances to take advantage of the flush, neon lowlife of L.A. Thompson sedulously ignores every opportunity and does not try to sort much sense out of the plot, either. He has all he can do to keep his actors from tripping over corpses. In addition to the ravishing Jacqueline Bisset, who appears as a rather tricky temptress, and Houseman, whose air of hothouse gentility is persuasive, Charles Bronson makes a pleasing shamus out of St. Ives. No big thing, mind. But he eases through...