Author: Julian Simon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351515195
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Most people in the United States believe that our environment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth is a burden and a threat. These beliefs according to Simon, are entirely wrong. Why do the media report so much false bad news about these? And why do we believe it? Those are the questions distinguished scholar, Julian Simon set out to answer in this book.
Author: Jayne T. MacLean
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Author: Jane Potter Gates
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Category : Land use, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Author: Jayne T. MacLean
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Author: Fred Magdoff
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583672265
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world’s population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the contributors to this volume share a focus on investigating how agricultural production is shaped by a system that is oriented around the creation of profit above all else, with food as nothing but an afterthought. As the authors make clear, it is technically possible to feed to world’s people, but it is not possible to do so as long as capitalism exists. Toward that end, they examine what can be, and is being, done to create a human-centered and ecologically sound system of food production, from sustainable agriculture and organic farming on a large scale to movements for radical land reform and national food sovereignty. This book will serve as an indispensible guide to the years ahead, in which world politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food politics.
Author: Jayne T. MacLean
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Julian Lincoln Simon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069121476X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon 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." The comprehensive data, careful quantitative research, and economic logic contained in the first edition of The Ultimate Resource questioned widely held professional judgments about the threat of overpopulation, and Simon's celebrated bet with Paul Ehrlich about resource prices in the 1980s enhanced the public attention--both pro and con--that greeted this controversial book. Now Princeton University Press presents a revised and expanded edition of The Ultimate Resource. The new volume is thoroughly updated and provides a concise theory for the observed trends: Population growth and increased income put pressure on supplies of resources. This increases prices, which provides opportunity and incentive for innovation. Eventually the innovative responses are so successful that prices end up below what they were before the shortages occurred. The book also tackles timely issues such as the supposed rate of species extinction, the "vanishing farmland crisis," and the wastefulness of coercive recycling. In Simon's view, the key factor in natural and world economic growth is our capacity for the creation of new ideas and contributions to knowledge. The more people alive who can be trained to help solve the problems that confront us, the faster we can remove obstacles, and the greater the economic inheritance we shall bequeath to our descendants. In conjunction with the size of the educated population, the key constraint on human progress is the nature of the economic-political system: talented people need economic freedom and security to bring their talents to fruition.
Author: Bruce L. Gardner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037496
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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"Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes behind these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action"--Jacket
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428920420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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