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Showing posts with label Malthus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malthus. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 May 2026

Why good ideas are oft-born as twins

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" W e often praise ideas for their originality and criticise other ideas for being insufficiently novel. So, what do we make of the fac...
Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Paul Erlich is Dead, his Environmentalism is (still) refuted

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E nvironmentalist Paul Erlich alarmed the world back in 1968 predicting a "population explosion" which forecast “the greatest cata...
Friday, 3 October 2025

'Degrowth' says we're running out of land to feed everyone.

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 N orman Borlaug says "no." "Thanks to improved farming techniques, fertiliser, irrigation, genetic modification, and innovat...
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Saturday, 14 October 2023

Imagine a Horse Race Between Smith, Schumpeter, and Stupidity

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There are always headwinds that resist the forces of progress, and tailwinds that push progress forward. Furthermore, outlines Peter Boettke...
Thursday, 13 July 2023

Says Law explains why we don't need a recession to kill price inflation

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Image Source:  Unsplash We need to engineer a good recession, say central bankers, to kill the inflation engineered by those same central ba...
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Sunday, 4 December 2022

There’s No Natural ‘Carrying Capacity’ for the Human Population

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  You may assume that this planet has a natural "carrying capacity" beyond which the human population just cannot go. Sounds reaso...