Tag: Indur M. Goklany

MEC: The Cycle of Prosperity

Mar 25, 2008

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in Economic Development, Economics, Health and Medicine, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution)

We have seen that there has been a sharp rise in prosperity as measured by health and longevity and in terms of income. All this has come in an era when the world population has grown more than 600%. Economist Robert Fogel attributes this to technophysio evolution. Indur M. Goklany, in his recent book The…