The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment
http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Ultimate_Resource/
“The world’s problem is not too many people, but lack of
political and economic freedom. Powerful evidence comes from pairs
of countries that had the same culture and history and much the
same standard of living when they split apart after World War II —
East and West Germany, North and South Korea, Taiwan and China. In
each case the centrally planned communist country began with less
population “pressure”, as measured by density per square kilometer,
than did the market-directed economy. And the communist and non-
communist countries also started with much the same birth rates.
But the market-directed economies performed much better
economically than the centrally-planned economies. This powerful
demonstration cuts the ground from under population growth as a
likely explanation of poor economic performance. …”
~Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment
http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Ultimate_Resource/
http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TINTRO.txt
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