Timeline for Is indefinite exponential economic growth possible?
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 21:52 | comment | added | luchonacho | Kenneth Boulding: "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 2, 2015 at 15:27 | vote | accept | gerrit | ||
| Dec 5, 2014 at 3:32 | answer | added | Jason Nichols | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 1:10 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | @DeerHunter: In real life, the Universe will pretty much die out in another $10^{15}$ years or so, so the answer is no, you can't have exponential growth "forever". If you want to ask a sensible question about this, it needs to be in the context of a model. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 0:49 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | @StevenLandsburg - what about real life, instead of models which can be constructed either way? | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | The answer, of course, is yes in some models and no in others. If you're asking for a survey of the growth literature, this question is too broad. Otherwise, it should be about a specific model or class of models. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 19:31 | history | asked | gerrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |