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The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
The Bet Paul Ehrlich Julian Simon and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
Author: Paul Sabin
In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public?s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300176483
ISBN-10: 0300176481
Publication Date: 9/3/2013
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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