rises, creating an incentive to adapt. It suggests that the more a society has to invent and innovate, ceteris paribus, the more easily the society will raise its living standards and lower resource scarcity. Criticism Criticism of the book is covered in article Julian Simon, section Criticism. See also Julian Lincoln Simon Thomas Malthus Paul R. Ehrlich Post scarcity References External links Full text of The Ultimate Resource 2 Critique of 'The Ultimate Resource' by Herman Daly, 1991, originally in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1982 Wikiversity:What is the ultimate resource? 1981 non-fiction books 1981 in the environment 1996 in the environment Books about capitalism Environmental non-fiction books American non-fiction books English-language books Works about scarcity Demography books Works about human overpopulation