Volume 1, Issue 3

Summer 2009

 The third issue of the EJSD looks at "The Population Bomb Four Decades On."

On World Population Day - Saturday, July 11 - the EJSD publishes a critical evaluation of theories and evidence relating to the impact of a burgeoning human population.

 

Volume 1, Issue 3: The Population Bomb Four Decades On


Jul 2009 - Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Science

Featured Story

JULIAN SIMON AND THE "LIMITS TO GROWTH" NEO-MALTHUSIANISM

By Paul Dragos Aligica

Julian Simon’s work on population, environment and technology is best seen against the rise of Neo-Malthusianism in the second half of the 20th century as embodied in the “limits to growth” movement. Simon went beyond criticizing various components of the neo-Malthusian 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.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 1, Issue 3: The Population Bomb Four Decades On

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EDITORIALS

THE PERSISTENCE OF POPULATION PESSIMISM

By Julian Morris

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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

HAVE INCREASES IN POPULATION, AFFLUENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WORSENED HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL WELL-BEING?

By Indur M. Goklany

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JULIAN SIMON AND THE "LIMITS TO GROWTH" NEO-MALTHUSIANISM

By Paul Dragos Aligica

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LAND CONFLICT AND GENOCIDE IN RWANDA

By Karol Boudreaux

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POPULATION GROWTH AND CITIES

By Randal O'Toole

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POPULATION GROWTH, INCREASES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND TRENDS IN FOOD PRICES

By Douglas Southgate

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THE POPULATION BOMB REVISITED

By Anne Ehrlich, Paul Ehrlich

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THE POST WAR INTELLECTUAL ROOTS OF THE POPULATION BOMB - FAIRFIELD OSBORN'S 'OUR PLUNDERED PLANET' AND WILLIAM VOGT'S 'ROAD TO SURVIVAL' IN RETROSPECT

By Pierre Desrochers, Christine Hoffbauer

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BOOK REVIEWS

REVIEW OF BLUE PLANET IN GREEN SHACKLES

By Peter Gordon

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REVIEW OF CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY

By Per Bylund, Mario Mondelli

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REVIEW OF FAILED STATES

By Chris Coyne

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REVIEW OF FATAL MISCONCEPTION

By Heli Kasanen

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REVIEW OF GREENER PASTURES

By Glenn Fox

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REVIEW OF SEX, SCIENCE & PROFITS

By Pierre Desrochers

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REVIEW OF STARVED FOR SCIENCE

By John H. Sanders

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REVIEW OF THE DOMINANT ANIMAL

By Matt Ridley

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