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Joel J Miller's avatar

The Future and Its Enemies is a top-ten book for me—one of the most foundational and enduring books for me.

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John Pinkerton's avatar

At a Princeton reunions panel on energy and the environment, we heard one panelist encourage everyone to have at most only one child. It’s the same assumption, that taming capitalism and limiting growth is the solution. But history and the economic analysis of growth teaches the opposite. Producing MORE young scientists will help us innovate our way out of these problems.

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