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Posted in Environment on Oct 25th, 2011
Windmills, famous now for chopping up bats and birds, seem to pose … an oil spill threat! (note, I think the bird chopping is overblown … cats kill orders of magnitude more birds and I don’t see any movement to ban outdoor cats taking shape). Here, from the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound: In addition […]
Posted in growth, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Oct 25th, 2011
Beginning in 1848 a new theory of economic growth began to proliferate. The massive extension of the division of labor and exchange, capital accumulation, and improvement of institutions that Hume, Smith, Ricardo and others identified as being key ingredients to economic growth, it seems, were only made possible because of an increase in the exploitive […]
