This book focuses on the alternative paradigm, the pro-growth
intellectual tradition that rejected the prophecies of doom and
called for realism and pragmatism in dealing with the challenge of
the future. Paul Dragos Aligica reconstructs and describes the
basic elements of this tradition that emerged in the seventies as a
response to the Club of Rome and the "limits to growth" movement.
He outlines a comprehensive perspective on its methodological and
conceptual foundations. Aligica uses the work of the two major
founders of this alternative approach: Herman Kahn and Julian
Simon. Herman Kahn was the first scholar and public intellectual to
engage and refute the "doomsday" theses advanced by the Club of
Rome and its followers. In his spirited and optimistic arguments he
made a strong case for the feasibility, desirability and morality
of global economic growth arguing that even given all the likely
human, environmental, and material costs and risks, "the case is
close to if not fully overwhelming." Julian Simon elaborated the
"anti-doomsayers" lines opened by Kahn, further developing the
emerging paradigm. He articulated new and precise arguments on
issues such as population growth, natural resources scarcity and
technological change, and reinforced Kahn's thesis that continued
world economic development is a moral imperative as well as a
practical desideratum. Together, Kahn and Simon managed to build
the foundations on which rest the current counter-reaction to the
"limits to growth" rhetoric and its initiatives. Both were not only
public figures of great accomplishments and influence but also
remarkable thinkers and personalities.
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