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The ostrich factor : our population myopia / Garrett Hardin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: viii, 168 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195122747
  • 9780195122749
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2
LOC classification:
  • HB849.415. H37 1999
Contents:
1. The Pursuit of Objectivity -- 2. Tertullian's Blessing -- 3. How to Lie with Learned Words -- 4. Foundations of Science: by Right, or by Default? -- 5. The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology -- 6. Consequentialism: Nature's Morality -- 7. Natural Selection: God's Choice -- 8. Altruism -- 9. Coercion -- 10. Diseconopmies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia -- 11. The Dream of One World -- 12. Russell's Theorem -- 13. A Martian View of Malthus -- 14. Equity, Equality and Affirmative Action -- 15. Multiculturalism: For and Against -- 16. Ambivalent Value of Growth -- 17. The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law -- 18. Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 304.2 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A191742B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.

1. The Pursuit of Objectivity -- 2. Tertullian's Blessing -- 3. How to Lie with Learned Words -- 4. Foundations of Science: by Right, or by Default? -- 5. The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology -- 6. Consequentialism: Nature's Morality -- 7. Natural Selection: God's Choice -- 8. Altruism -- 9. Coercion -- 10. Diseconopmies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia -- 11. The Dream of One World -- 12. Russell's Theorem -- 13. A Martian View of Malthus -- 14. Equity, Equality and Affirmative Action -- 15. Multiculturalism: For and Against -- 16. Ambivalent Value of Growth -- 17. The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law -- 18. Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?.

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