Evolution Ethics (Classic Reprint): And Other Essays: And Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Explore how capital, labor, and nature set the limits of any society. This nonfiction examination, drawn from Evolution Ethics: And Other Essays, asks how farms, herds, and even manufacturing can sustain a population. It builds a clear argument about why work alone cannot create food and how resources determine a community’s size.

- Learn how vital capital—the food and wealth needed to keep people alive—shapes the capacity of a polity.
- See the difference between pastoral, agricultural, and manufacturing populations and how each depends on available resources.
- Discover why labor can modify environments but cannot by itself produce the means of sustenance.
- Understand the idea that population growth must align with the production of food-stuffs, a concept tied to early economic thought.

Ideal for readers of science, economics, and social theory who want a historical, rigorously argued perspective on production, resources, and society.

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