Jared Diamond projects global environmental and economic decline in his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Chose to Fail or Succeed. In contrast, most economists predict not growth-induced resource depletion or Malthusian economic stagnation, but instead potentially reversible problems caused by bad government policies.
Collapse? The “Dismal” Science Doesn’t Think So
Economists’ Views of the Future
By Robert M. Whaples
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