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The movement grew rapidly and once had 250,000 members and employed up to one hundred people at Columbia assembling statistical data.<ref>http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_61689.htm</ref>

In the ''Technocracy Study Course'' M. King Hubbert called economists apologists for businessmen.<ref>http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/2023/SWP-1353-09057784.pdf?sequence=1</ref> More recently [[Howard T. Odum]] charged that "...the economists have not been educated in [[energetics]] and therefore have not understood the [[second law of energy ([[Thermodynamics]]) and the fact that energy is not reused." Science writer [[Malcolm Slesser]] criticizes economists, since they "tend to take technological progress for granted as if they could buy their way around the laws of thermodynamics."' Hence, antipathy toward economists is common both to Technocrats and net energy analysts.<ref> http://www.eoearth.org/article/Net_energy_analysis</ref>

==Excerpt from the Technocracy Study Course==