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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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#CurrentlyWatching “The 50 Year Argument”, a hard-to-find #MartinScorcese / #DavidTedeschi documentary covering a half-century of the #NewYorkReviewOfBooks. TBH It's not up to Scorcese's usual standards and often blurs the line between insightful intellectualism and mundane elitism. Or maybe that's the point, eh? IMHO It's not must-see viewing but worth watching if you're interested. #Culture #Literature #Politics #History #Cinema #Documentary https://archive.org/details/the-50-year-argument-2014-martin-scorsese
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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" #CoreyRobin #NewYorkReviewOfBooks #AdamSmith #economics #Empathy
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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? ...
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/10/08/how-many-people-can-the-earth-support/
Paywall: https://archive.is/E5AB8
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450230
#Population #Overpopulation #CarryingCapacity #LimitsToGrowth #BigProblems #JoelECohen #RockefellerUniversity #ColumbiaUniversity #NYBooks #NewYorkReviewOfBooks #Books #BookReviews #Reviews