Pete Vincent
>I think it could hardly be called _Rifkin's_ theory, as it has been
>around an awfully long time, being discussed explicitly, for example,
>in Robert Theobald's 1964(?) book.
I'd give it a much older pedigree than that. Stephen Leacock started out as
a political economist and wrote a very interesting piece on the same theme
in 1921. M. King Hubbert's "Man hours and production" dates from the mid 1930s.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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