Economic Growth and the State of Humanity

Introduction With this Neo-Malthusian vision of the future, the Global 2000 Report to the President began a chilling description of the problems that lay ahead for the world unless radical changes were made. Fifteen years later, Julian Simon quoted these words in his introduction to the monumental collection of essays, The State of Humanity. The point of that book, which Simon also edited, was to determine whether trends in human well-being and environmental quality were in accord with a Neo-Malthusian world view.

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