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Muddling Toward Frugality
Warren Johnson
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Description for Muddling Toward Frugality
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: KCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
Mr. Johnson's thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially the non-renewable kind, become harder to find and more expensive to extract, process, transport and distribute. This simple brute fact is the basic cause of inflation, despite the inability of most professional economists to see it. (The dismal science has never been more dismally obtuse than it is today.) The law of diminishing returns is coming into effect. Technological developments can delay the ... Read more
Mr. Johnson's thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially the non-renewable kind, become harder to find and more expensive to extract, process, transport and distribute. This simple brute fact is the basic cause of inflation, despite the inability of most professional economists to see it. (The dismal science has never been more dismally obtuse than it is today.) The law of diminishing returns is coming into effect. Technological developments can delay the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Easton Studio Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Westport, United States
ISBN
9781935212164
SKU
V9781935212164
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About Warren Johnson
Warren Johnson is the former chairman of the Geography Department at San Diego State University. Now retired, he lives sustainably in rural northern California and now, more than thirty years after the initial publication of Muddling Toward Frugality, Professor Johnson is writing a new book called The End of an Era, not the End of the World that ... Read more
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