Is man doomed to progress?
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JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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