Hi, folks, I'm back.
I would note that Ehrlich has done a lot of good
work, some of it even on economics. He has also
made a lot of mistakes, some of them very publicly.
His worst was his idiotic bet with the late Julian Simon
in 1980 about the future course of various metals and
raw materials prices during the 1980s. He said they
would rise and Simon said they would fall. Simon won.
His _The Population Bomb_ of about 30 years ago
also looks rather overdone at this point. But his analysis
of material throughput and the nature of the interrelation
between economies and ecologies has been superb.
Barkley Rosser
Professor of Economics
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22801 USA
website: http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
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From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, August 14, 2000 9:26 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:614] Re: RE: Wage setting
>Ehrlich is not all bad. See
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>Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. 1996. Betrayal of Science and Reason:
>How Anti-environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
>(Washington, D.C.: Island Press).
>
>
>Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:
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>> mbs: Ehrlich is not a credible person to me.
>>
>> Agreed; butterflies he knows, the rest is c**p. For a great
radicalization
>> of their formula [and critique] try "Dangerous Intersections: Feminist
>> Perspectives on Population, Environment & Development" edited by J
Silliman
>> & Y King
>>
>> Ian
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>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>Chico, CA 95929
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>Tel. 530-898-5321
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