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  2. Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Bostrom claims his argument goes beyond the classical ancient "skeptical hypothesis", claiming that "... we have interesting empirical reasons to believe that a certain disjunctive claim about the world is true", the third of the three disjunctive propositions being that humans are almost certainly living in a simulation.

  3. The Limits to Growth - Wikipedia

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    The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report [2] that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. [3] The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the Earth and human systems.

  4. Problems with economic models - Wikipedia

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    Decisions based on economic theories that are not scientifically possible to test can give people a false sense of precision, and that could be misleading, leading to build up logical errors. Natural economics: Economics is concerned with both 'normal' and 'abnormal' economic conditions. In an objective scientific study one is not restricted by ...

  5. Debunking a Destructive Economic Hypothesis - AOL

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    Over the past five years, economists have been waging a fierce battle over if and when fiscal stimulus is an appropriate tool to fight the deleterious effects of the ongoing crisis. On one side ...

  6. Degrowth - Wikipedia

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    One way to avoid giving attention to growth might be extending from the economic concept of growth, which proponents of both growth and degrowth commonly adopt, to a broader concept of growth that allows for the observation of growth in other sociological characteristics of society. A corresponding "recoding" of "growth-obsessed", capitalist ...

  7. Economic calculation problem - Wikipedia

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    Caplan also states the exaggeration of the problem; in his view, Mises did not manage to prove why economic calculation made the socialist economy 'impossible', and even if there were serious doubts about the efficiency of cost benefit analysis, other arguments are plentiful (Caplan gives the example of the incentive problem).

  8. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts. Trump's alleged words began circulating the online sphere in October 2015 , when Trump's campaign was beginning to be taken seriously.

  9. Growth in a Time of Debt - Wikipedia

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    RR 2010a [Growth in a Time of Debt] is the only evidence cited in the "Paul Ryan Budget" on the consequences of high public debt for economic growth. Representative Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" reports (Ryan 2013 p. 78): A well-known study completed by economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart confirms this common-sense conclusion.