1994 Series 1 Number 12 Page 23
Dr. Digby McLaren, past President of the Royal Society of Canada and past chairman of CACOR, outlined his correspondence with Nathan Keyfitz regarding Nathan’s paper on Demographic Discord. The main point was that classical economics deserves to be kicked aside because it is fundamentally dangerous. We need to stop the way it holds sway over us. Ecologists don’t often offer views on economics and neither should economists, who are untrained in ecology, offer views on the fundamental ways in which humanity depends on and affects the ecosphere. The rest of us ought to listen much less to economists and much more to ecologists.
Link to | Correspondence between Digby MacLaren and Nathan Keyfitz.
Dr. Keyfitz, FRSC and FRSS, was a Canadian demographer who spent much of his career at Harvard, U of Toronto, and other prestigious universities.
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