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p. 275 ‘full-scale trebuchets capable of tossing pianos more than 150 yards’. Wall Street Journal, 15 January 1992.
p. 276 ‘It was Paul Romer’s great achievement in the 1990s to rescue the discipline of economics from the century-long cul-de-sac into which it had driven by failing to incorporate innovation.’ Warsh, D. 2006. Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations. W.W. Norton.
p. 276 ‘As Paul Romer puts it’. Romer, P. 1995. Beyond the Knowledge Worker. Wordlink.
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p. 279 ‘I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair’. Speech by John Stuart Mill to the London Debating Society on ‘perfectibility’, 2 May 1828.
p. 279 US air pollutant emissions graph. US Environmental Protection Agency.
p. 280 ‘the economist Julian Simon tried it in the 1990s’. Simon, J. 1996. The Ultimate Resource 2. Princeton University Press.
p. 280 ‘Bjørn Lomborg tried it in the 2000s’. Lomborg, B. 2001. The Sceptical Environmentalist. Cambridge University Press.
p. 280 ‘said Hayek’. Hayek, F.A. 1960. The Constitution of Liberty. Routledge.
p. 280 ‘As Warren Meyer has put it’. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/02/in_praise_of_ro.html.
p. 280 ‘The environmentalist Lester Brown, writing in 2008’. Brown, L. 2008. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilisation. Earth Policy Institute.
p. 283 ‘Pessimists have always been ubiquitous and have always been feted’. Herman, A. 1997. The Idea of Decline in Western History. The Free Press.
p. 283 ‘wrote Adam Smith at the start of the industrial revolution’. Smith, A. 1776. The Wealth of Nations.
pp. 283–4 ‘cried the Quarterly Review’. Smiles, S. 1857. The Life of George Stephenson, Railways Engineer. John Murray.
p. 284 ‘Dr Arnold was more enlightened’. Quoted in Williams, A. 2008. The Enemies of Progress. Societas.
p. 284 ‘Robert Southey had just published a book’. Southey, R. 1829. Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. John Murray.
p. 285 ‘the modern philosopher John Gray’. Quoted in Postrel, V. 1998. The Future and Its Enemies. Free Press.
p. 285 ‘Thomas Babington Macaulay’. Macaulay, T.B. 1830. Review of Southey’s Colloquies on Society. Edinburgh Review, January 1830.
p. 286 ‘in his History of England’. Macaulay, T.B. 1848. History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
p. 287 ‘said Macaulay in 1830’. Macaulay, T.B. 1830. Review of Southey’s Colloquies on Society. Edinburgh Review, January 1830.
p. 288 ‘a book called Degeneration, by the German Max Nordau’. Quoted in Leadbetter, C. 2002. Up the Down Escalator: Why the Global Pessimists Are Wrong. Viking.
p. 288 ‘said Winston Churchill in a memo to the prime minister’. Asquith papers, December 1910, quoted in Addison, P. 1992. Churchill on the Home Front 1900–1955. Jonathan Cape.
p. 288 ‘Theodore Roosevelt was even more explicit’. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, National Edition, XII, p. 201.
p. 288 ‘as Isaiah Berlin put it’. Quoted in Byatt, I. 2008. Weighing the present against the future: the choice and use of discount rates in the analysis of climate change. In Climate Change Policy: Challenging the Activists. Institute of Economic Affairs.
p. 289 ‘Oswald Spengler in 1923 in his bestselling polemic The Decline of the West’. Spengler, O. 1923. The Decline of the West. George Allen & Unwin.
p. 290 ‘the opening words of Agenda 21’. Preamble to Agenda 21, 1992.
p. 290 ‘in the words of Charles Leadbetter’. Leadbetter, C. 2002. Up the Down Escalator: Why the Global Pessimists Are Wrong. Viking.
p. 291 ‘groaned the wealthy environmentalist Edward Goldsmith’. Quoted in Postrel, V. 1998. The Future and Its Enemies. Free Press.
p. 291 ‘in the words of the Prince of Wales’. HRH Prince of Wales 2000. The civilized society. Temenos Academy Review. See http://www.prince ofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/an_article_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_titled_the_civilised_s_93.html000.
p. 291 ‘says a professor of psychology’. Barry Schwartz, quoted in Easterbrook, G. 2003. The Progress Paradox. Random House.
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