{"id":7100,"date":"2015-04-04T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2015-04-04T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:22:45","slug":"review-of-collision-course-endless-growth-on-a-finite-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7100","title":{"rendered":"Review of Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review of\u00a0Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet)<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This informative book is about the rise of economic growth to the status of the number one goal of nations; the short-lived challenge to that dogma from the book\u00a0The Limits to Growth<\/em>\u00a0(1972)<\/a>; the solidity of the\u00a0Limits<\/em>\u00a0position as confirmed by subsequent data and the analyses of others; the intellectual poverty and dishonesty of the growth economists\u2019 reaction against the\u00a0Limits<\/em>\u00a0argument; and how it nevertheless happened that through modern public relations and well-financed ideological think tanks, the intellectually weaker growth arguments prevailed. Higgs focuses on the US story, but with informative parallels from her native Australia.<\/p>\n

Higgs documents the cogency of the\u00a0Limits<\/em>\u00a0position and how the business as usual projection of the World Model has for over thirty years fit the data better than any standard economic model. She also exposes how the economists resorted to ridicule and arrogance as a substitute for reasoned refutation in their response to\u00a0Limits<\/em>. This story is well known to me because I was a participant in the debate. I can testify that Higgs\u2019 retelling is accurate and insightful. It is also refreshing to me that MIT Press published her book. This indicates the welcome likelihood that some anonymous member of the MIT department of economics no longer has a veto over the decisions of the MIT Press.*<\/p>\n

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Review of\u00a0Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet) Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014 This informative book is about the rise of economic growth to the status of the number one goal of nations; the short-lived challenge to that dogma from the book\u00a0The Limits to Growth\u00a0(1972); the solidity of the\u00a0Limits\u00a0position as confirmed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[4630,4595,391,2328,4631,485],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-collision-course","tag-endless-growth","tag-growth","tag-infinite-growth","tag-kerryn-higgs","tag-limits-to-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}