Epstein Secrets

,WILLIAM L CARBONARA,KATHLEEN BOEHM,RICCARDO SCHAUER,TIFFANY WHEELER,DENNIS J

NE,HORACE H CALLAHAM,RICHARD P HAFT,ALLISON ROGERS MCCANN,FRANK J DRAIME,MRS DAVID M

s are selected for successful reproduction. | will try to show that the classical school treated this as axiomatic from Petty through Smith, Malthus, Ricardo and Mill. Malthus was only the most obvious case. It lapsed from attention when a brilliant new insight called marginalism preferred to do without e

me preference? What turned out to be Petty’s idea occurred to me about 40 years ago, when I first took an interest in evolutionary biology. My friend Alan Rogers, a population geneticist | didn’t know all the time, was thinking in the same direction. His two published papers on this are in my appendix. Neithe

es. They cannot gain by consumption restraint for the two excellent reasons that there is no consumption to spare and no niche space if there were. Ricardo, Malthus and West all warned against rote replication in economies already developed. We must create means to make more from less. I suspect that we

nd published it in Social Science Information in 1989. To date it is my only publication in a refereed journal, and remains uncited as far as I know. Alan Rogers, a biologist at University of Utah, published almost the same idea in 1994! and 19972. Neither of us knew of Petty or Cassel or each other. Both of R