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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics

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Is There a Good Answer to the Question of Population Growth?

It's not obvious anyone in the year 1000 AD would have been in a position to predict broad population growth over the next few hundred years. But if it's really just driven by this kind of inexorable march of technological progress or by other kind of big underlying factors, then how are you going to do anything? It's like trying to steer this huge ship that's slowly moving in a different direction.

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