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Julian Lincoln Simon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Julian Lincoln Simon (February 12, 1932-February 8, 1998) was professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He wrote many books and articles, mostly on economic subjects. He is best known for his work on population, natural resources, and immigration. He was the primary proponent of the cornucopian belief in endless resources and unlimited population growth empowered by technological progress. His works are often cited by libertarians in support of their arguments. ..." |
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Julian Simon Remembered: It's a Wonderful Life, by Stephen Moore, Cato Policy Report, Mar 1998
"The ultimate embarrassment for the Malthusians was when Paul Ehrlich bet Simon $1,000 in 1980 that five resources (of Ehrlich’s choosing) would be more expensive in 10 years. Ehrlich lost: 10 years later every one of the resources had declined in price by an average of 40 percent." |
Julian Simon, Lifesaver, by Donald J. Boudreaux, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Apr 1998
"Julian's foremost contribution to humankind was his demonstration that prosperity and a healthy environment are best assured when governments respect private property and free markets—because only within free markets can human creativity flourish." |
Julian Simon, combatant in a 200-year war, by Thomas Sowell, 12 Feb 1998
"Julian Simon set out to explain what happened to real population in the real world, not what happens in abstract models or popular hysteria. In the real world, as he demonstrated with masses of facts and in-depth analysis, we are nowhere near to running low on food or natural resources." |
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The Doomslayer, Wired, Feb 1997
"The environment is going to hell, and human life is doomed to only get worse, right? Wrong. Conventional wisdom, meet Julian Simon, the Doomslayer. ... a neither shy nor retiring nor particularly mild-mannered professor of business administration at a middling eastern-seaboard state university." |
35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
Related Topics: Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom, John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Norman Borlaug, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Alfred E. Kahn, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Richard M. Nixon, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Thomas S. Szasz, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"In books such as The Ultimate Resource and The State of Humanity, the late 'Doomslayer' patiently and exhaustively collected the data proving that neo-Malthusians such as Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown were blowing smoke about environmental degradation and overpopulation." |
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Natural Resources Aren't Finite, Cato Institute Daily Commentary, 4 Mar 1997
"... the term 'finite' is ... downright misleading when applied to natural resources. The mathematical definition of 'finite' is quite different from a useful economic definition. ... After centuries of slow progress ... science is attaining an undreamed-of ability to create new materials." |
On Keynes as a Practical Economist, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Aug 1996
"Could these assertions of impending scarcity have been more wildly in error? Not likely. ... Millions of plain American farmers had a far better grasp of the agricultural reality in the 1920s than did Keynes. ... So much for Keynes's wisdom as an economist and a seer into the future." |
The State of Humanity: Good and Getting Better, by Julian L. Simon, Sheldon Richman, 11 Nov 1996
"... amazingly, all the historical evidence shows that raw materials —all of them, even oil— have become more abundant rather than less. ... The ultimate resource is people —especially skilled, spirited and hopeful young people endowed with liberty— who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well." |
What About Immigration?, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jan 1986
"We sometimes seem frightened at the number of persons who want to come to the United States; we act as if we are under siege. ... we should be glad that our society is sufficiently attractive to have what is called an immigration problem. ... totalitarian countries have no difficulty of this sort." |
| Books Authored |
| A Life Against the Grain: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Economist, 2002 |
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| Hoodwinking the Nation, 1999 |
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| The State of Humanity, 1995 |
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| The Ultimate Resource 2, 1996 |
- ISBN 0691042691: Hardcover, Princeton University Press, Revised edition, 1996
- ISBN 0691003815: Paperback, Princeton University Press, Revised edition, 1998
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It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years
by Stephen Moore, Julian L. Simon, Cato Institute, 2000 |
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