Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
by Garrett Hardin
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Author: Garrett HardinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-04-06
ISBN: 0195093852
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: A marvellous book distinguished by Hardin's superb clarity of thought
Summary: 5 Stars
1st edition, reissued (1995), 311 pages
This is another of the twenty books that Charlie Munger recommends in the 2nd edition of Poor Charlie's Almanack (which I cannot recommend more highly). When a very widely read and highly effective thinker like Munger gets to eighty years old and recommends a list of just twenty books, I think one would be justified in expecting all of them to be pretty good.
Even so, as I make my way through his list I find myself pleasantly surprised at just how good some of them are. The clarity of thought Hardin demonstrates in this book is simply superb.
There is an important difference comparing this book to most others. Because so much of his subject matter (the subtitle is: `Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos') is smeared over by taboo and emotion, Hardin appears to have decided that in order to deal with this problem he also needs to demonstrate how to think properly.
Thus it is really two books in one: a manual on how to think effectively and a treatise on his chosen subject. For example, he hammers home the importance of default positions to provide the foundation for critical judgement (in economics: there's no such thing as a free lunch; in psychology: reward determines behaviour; in ecology: and then what?).
I am left with a feeling of gratitude towards both Munger and Hardin - without either of whom I would not have read this marvellous book.
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