Tom, we could have some fun here finding the oldest comments on these
matters. I was working with a student yesterday; we were finding
contemporary situations similar to those describe by some of the prophets
in the Hebrew(old) Testament. Amos and Isaiah had some interesting concerns.
Regards,
Brian McAndrews
>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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