Human Creativity Increases the Economic Size of the World’s Arable Land

by Don Boudreaux on June 3, 2015

in Agriculture, Seen and Unseen

Economically, the supply of arable land on the globe has more than tripled over the past half-century.  (HT Peter Curry)  (To enlarge this image, click on it.  We can think of innovative and entrepreneurial humans as ‘clicking’ with their creativity ‘on’ the world’s landmass to enlarge it.)

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