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Discuss in brief the main thesis in “Limits to Growth” (1972) and also provide a critique of the same.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Economic Geography

The Limits to Growth (1972), written by Donella and Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William Behrens for the Club of Rome (founded 1968), was the first computer-simulated global forecast of resource-constrained growth.

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  • The World3 Model: Five Interacting Variables
  • The Central Thesis: Exponential Growth against Linear Remedies
  • The Cornucopian Rebuttal and the Failure on Resources
  • Methodological Critique: A World Without Regions or Prices
  • The Equity Charge and the Partial Vindication

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