Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-20-2018
First page number:
1
Last page number:
6
Abstract
Certainly man will not become immortal, but will not the interval between the first breath that he draws and the time when in the natural course of events, without disease or accident, he expires, increase indefinitely?
Marquis de Condorcet Sketch for a Historical Picture Of the Human Mind (1795)
Keywords
Genealogy; Lifespan
Disciplines
Economics | Leisure Studies
File Format
File Size
426 Kb
Language
English
Repository Citation
Karstensson, L.
(2018).
A Short Note on Longevity.
1-6.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/econ_fac_articles/58
Comments
*Thanks are extended to Professors Djeto Assane and Jeffrey Waddoups of the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for their comments on an earlier draft of this note. Any remaining errors in the piece are, of course, the responsibility of the author.