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Living within Limits
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Living within Limits

Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

by Garrett Hardin

Recommended by Charlie Munger and Shane Parrish

Recommended by Charlie Munger and Shane Parrish

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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Science.

We fail to mandate economic sanity, " writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population c...

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