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The movement grew rapidly and as a mass-movement its real center was California where it claimed half a million members in 1934. Technocracy counted among its admirers such men as the novelist [[H.G. Wells]], the author [[Theodore Dreiser]] and the economist [[Thorstein Veblen]].<ref>http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html retrieved June-18-2009</ref>

The movement grew rapidly and once had 250,000 members and employed up to one hundred people at Columbia assembling statistical data.<ref>{{cite web

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|title=The Rise and Fall of the Hubbert Curve: Its origins and Current Perceptions

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|author=McCabe, Peter J.

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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]] criticized economists, since they "tend to take technological progress for granted as if they could buy their way around the laws of thermodynamics."<ref>{{cite web