Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

We see only what we have names for.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species