- Economic policy, Natural resources, Population, Long Now Manual for Civilization
Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon has led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the "perils of overpopulation."
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Earnest, spare, cool and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Julian Lincoln Simon
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 734
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780691003818
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