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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. 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]] criticizescriticized economists, since they "tend to take technological progress for granted as if they could buy their way around the laws of thermodynamics."<ref>http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/2023/SWP-1353-09057784.pdf?sequence=1</ref> 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==