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McCulloch, Scrope, and Hodgskin: Nineteenth-Century Versions of Julian Simon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

William S. Kern
William S. Kern
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Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5023.
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In The Ultimate Resource (1981, 1996), and in many other publications over the last several decades, Julian Simon put forth controversial views regarding the connection between natural resource scarcity, population growth, and economic progress. Simon argued, in contrast to those espousing the limits to growth, that natural resources were not getting scarcer, but more abundant, and that a large and growing population was an asset rather than a liability in the pursuit of economic growth.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 289 - 301
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Copyright The History of Economics Society 2003

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