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Varun Bansal
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Garrett Hardin
American Ecologist and Microbiologist
(1915-2003)
Everyone will maximize his own benefit to the detriment of the whole.
Assumption: each child is a net good to its parents but a net bad to
society.
New Developments in World Population
Hardin’s work written in 1968. Since then:
The right to breed in excess is like the right to steal from banks – it
must be controlled.
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