Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
05 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
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Who Won the Bet of the Century?
28 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
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Matt Ridley and 2012 Julian Simon award
05 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
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26th anniversary of Julian Simon @PaulREhrlich bet @GreenpeaceNZ @GreenpeaceUSA
11 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, resource economics, survivor principle Tags: commodity prices, doomsday prophecies, endogenous growth theory, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, Paul Ehrlich
A 2011 blog post of mine on "the bet" rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/10/cornuc…
Attached a bigger bin of commodities & bet dates in red http://t.co/SC6HeuRwys—
Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) April 29, 2015
Julian Simon and William Buckley on Cross–Fire
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, resource economics Tags: commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, William Buckley
Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Paul Sabin "The Bet: Our Gamble for Earth’s Future"
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, resource economics Tags: Julian Simon, Paul Ehrlich, Paul Sabin
The Ehrlich–Simon Bet and commodity prices since 1845
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmentalism, resource economics Tags: commodity prices, Julian Simon, Paul Ehrlich
A 2011 blog post of mine on "the bet" rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/10/cornuc…
Attached a bigger bin of commodities & bet dates in red http://t.co/SC6HeuRwys—
Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) April 29, 2015
Simon-Ehrlich wager
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in market efficiency, resource economics Tags: activists, commodity prices, doomsday prophecies, Julian Simon, Paul Ehrlich, peak oil, Simon-Ehrlich wager
EARTH DAY: SPIRITUALLY UPLIFTING, INTELLECTUALLY DEBASED by Julian L. Simon
23 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, market efficiency Tags: Earth Day, Julian Simon, Paul Ehrlich
During the first great Earth Week in 1970 there was panic.
The public’s outlook for the planet was unrelievedly gloomy.
The doom saying environmentalists – of whom the dominant figure was Paul Ehrlich – raised the alarm: The oceans and the Great Lakes were dying; impending great famines would be seen on television starting in 1975; the death rate would quickly increase due to pollution; and rising prices of increasingly-scarce raw materials would lead to a reversal in the past centuries’ progress in the standard of living.
… On average, people throughout the world have been living longer and eating better than ever before.
Fewer people die of famine nowadays than in earlier centuries.
The real prices of food and of every other raw material are lower now than in earlier decades and centuries, indicating a trend of increased natural-resource availability rather than increased scarcity.
The major air and water pollutions in the advanced countries have been lessening rather than worsening.
Via Julian Simon memorial site
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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