Julian Simon and the "Limits to Growth" Neo-Malthusianism

Julian Simon’s work on population, environment and technology is best seen against the rise of NeoMalthusianism in the second half of the 20th century as embodied in the “limits to growth” movement. Simon went beyond criticizing various components of the neoMalthusian paradigm. His work articulated the elements of a complex alternative social philosophy in which evolution, social exchange, and creativity play pivotal roles. Human creativity enables human beings to be different than the rest of the animal world and to create complex orders based on ideas and exchange. The institutions humans set up allow them to avoid nature’s (Malthusian or neo-Malthusian) traps. Consequently the notion that nature puts a clear-cut, limiting condition on growth is a simplistic and misleading premise for public debates and governmental decisions.

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