The ostrich factor : our population myopia / Garrett Hardin.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: viii, 168 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195122747
- 9780195122749
- 304.2
- HB849.415. H37 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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