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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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The Carrying Capacity of Land
I think he got the broad story pretty right. He had the misfortune basically of living at precisely the time when neo-Meltusism ceased to be a good description of the world so basically what he missed and I think people are sometimes very harshly criticizing him. There have not really been very strong analogies of this in the past with the possible exception of the agricultural revolution itself which was a major change in the kind of density of food you could produce from a given plot of land.
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