Bosco,
You are thinking of Alfred Kahn of Cornell,
news.cornell.edu
Didn't deregulation of natural start also started under Carter.
I read the piece on the WWIII link mentioned a couple of posts ago.
The trouble with this stuff is that some serious commentators
have pointed to the problem of overpopulation. Harrison Brown, for example, in The challenge of man's future. New York: Viking Press, 1954.
wolfson.ox.ac.uk
So even if the problem is real, the way to confront these issues brings out some strange prescriptions.
The last dozen years seem to have vindicated Julian Simon's position over that of Paul Ehrlich's,(The population bomb. New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.), but is this just a "bear rally" for humanity?
cato.org
Kudlow is squarely in Simon's camp, and he is certainly right
that many pessimists do not acknowledge the power of
Shumpeterian creative destruction. This makes him the darling of
CNBC gang, and was an important reason that I stopped watching that show during my morning exercises.
The best book IMO for understanding modern dilemma is:
Jacques Ellul, The technological society. Vintage, 1964.
regards, Seppo |
