ASIN: B00D2YL1LS
Publisher: 1 Jim Boehm
Pages: 169
.In the 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle referred to economics as “the dismal science”. Carlyle gave economics the nickname "the dismal science" as a response to the late 18th century writings of The Reverend Thomas Malthus, who grimly predicted that starvation would result as projected population growth exceeded the rate of increase in the food supply.If you are one of many who sat through an economic class in a government school, you might also think of economics as dismal but you won’t after reading this book. Giving you some basic facts to explode economic myths as well as historical facts is what this book is about, so let’s start now. There are still a great number of Malthusian’s especially in the Green Party today that believe Malthus’s theory. What they miss is when a fox eats a chicken there is one less chicken. When man eats a chicken and likes it he produces more.As for ...
