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Quote of the day: "Only in an economy of one, where there is no exchange at all, do we make decisions like the rational actor of economics textbooks--which is why Robinson Crusoe is such a fixture of them"

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"Originalism fails its own test": David Cole on the fallacies of "originalism" in legal interpretation in the United States. andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20

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Breaking news: I’m only one issue behind in my reading.

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ · @dredmorbius
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How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1998)

... I hope to offer a perspective that differs from the views of those who say that rapid population growth is no problem at all and those who say that population growth is the only problem. A rounded view of the facts should immunize us against both cornucopians and doomsayers. I give more details in my recent book How Many People Can the Earth Support? ...

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Paywall: archive.is/E5AB8

HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

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