The environmentalist manifesto The Limits to Growth (1972) predicted that a series of ecological catastrophes would soon bring economic collapse. The book was wrong about environmental apocalypse, but it did help create a favorable climate for regulations that have seriously hampered economic growth.
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Craig S. Marxsen is an associate professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Independent Institute.
| Other Independent Review articles by Craig S. Marxsen | |
| Spring 2008 | Politically Contrived Gasoline Shortage |
| Fall 2003 | Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment |
| Summer 2000 | The Environmental Propaganda Agency |
