Table of Contents

1. The Pursuit of Objectivity ; 2. Tertullian's Blessing ; 3. How to Lie with Learned Words ; 4. Foundations of Science: By Right, or By Default? ; 5. The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology ; 6. Consequentialism: Nature's Morality ; 7. Natural Selection: God's Choice ; 8. Altruism ; 9. Coercion ; 10. Diseconopmies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia ; 11. The Dream of One World ; 12. Russell's Theorem ; 13. A Martian View of Malthus ; 14. Equity, Equality and Affirmative Action ; 15. Multiculturalism: For and Against ; 16. Ambivalent Value of Growth ; 17. The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law ; 18. Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?

About the Author

Garrett Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The founder of the field of human ecology, he is the author of the seminal essay "The Tragedy of the Commons," which has been reprinted in over 100 anthologies, and the book Living Within Limits (Oxford), which won the 1993 Award in Science from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He lives in Santa Barbara.

Reviews

"...his challenges to widely held assumptions are bound to stir the reader's thoughts..."--Scientific American
"Garrett Hardin has once again turned his delightful brilliance loose on the purpose and effectiveness of government in a democracy, the protection of each from all and all from each. No one feeds the intellectual fires of ecology's role in government better than Hardin. Rich in history, ethics, etymology, Hardin specializes in breaking the manacles of history, phrase and thought that seem to condemn us to the cheapening of people and the impoverishment of
habitat through growth in human numbers. Hardin offers an exciting glimpse of ourselves at the moment and shows us all that history need not flow inevitably to chaos."--G.M. Woodwell, Director, Woods
Hole Research Center
"Sure to stimulate debate."--Booklist
"A learned, witty, and controversial book evaluating contemporary ethical assumptions regarding population planning and world population growth."--Library Journal
"With clear logic and imaginative insight, Garrett Hardin has again given us a strong helping hand in the unending task of overcoming denial of the tough issues in population, economics, and ethics."--Herman E. Daly, Professor School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland