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...Malthus may have been right after...
...race against Malthus may be a tight one, but Goldberg said, "The human mind has always found the creativity to make the next breakthrough...
...prosperous West is lounging next door to its great kaboom. It is both smug and edgy at the same time. Now comes another agent of doomsday, this one actually killing people and doubling the number of its victims every ten months as if to reverse the logic of Thomas Malthus. The prospect of nuclear holocaust may be terrible, but the mind takes certain perverse psychological comforts from it. It has not happened, for one thing. And if it does happen, it will be over in a flash. AIDS is much slower and smaller, and may not add up ultimately...
...toward youthful ecofreaks. "Poor old radical youth; it's hard not to sympathize with them," he sighs. But "pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that has persisted in industrial countries since Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English clergyman who warned that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion. The solution is not to stop...
...economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three, the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job. Economics is hard on the head and soft on visuals. Portraits of Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually...