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	Wager between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julian L. Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990.
		Julian Simon won because the price of three of the five metals went down in absolute terms and all five of the metals fell in price in inflation adjusted terms [2] with both tin and tungsten falling by more than half (inflation adjusted).
		Simon offered to raise the wager to $20,000 and use any resources at any time that Ehrlich preferred, but the two were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a second wager.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wager_between_Julian_Simon_and_Paul_Ehrlich (1302 words)

	Julian Simon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In it, Simon challenged the notion of a pending Malthusian catastrophe — that an increase in population has negative economic consequences; that population is a drain on natural resources; and that we stand at risk of running out of resources through over-consumption.
		Simon was one of the founders of free-market environmentalism.
		Simon was also the first to suggest that airlines should provide rewards for travelers to give up their seats on overbooked airlines rather than arbitrarily keep certain passengers off the plane.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Julian_Simon (794 words)

	Review: The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon
		Simon has argued from the premise of an "infinite" substitutability among different elements within a (finite) set to the conclusion of the infinity of the set itself.
		Simon's demonstration that resources are infinite is, in my view, a coarse mixture of simple fallacy, omission of contrary evidence from his own expert sources and gross statistical misinterpretation.
		Simon is quite prepared to ruin the habitats of all other species by letting them (and future generations) bear the entropic costs of disorders that our own continuing growth entails.
	www.mnforsustain.org /daly_h_simon_ultimate_resource_review.htm (3011 words)

	Are Resources Infinite? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Economist Julian Simon’s claim that all natural resources are infinite has provoked a lot of discussion and debate, often by people on both sides who miss the fundamental insight Simon had about resource availability.
		Simon’s point is not that at any given moment there are an infinite number of gold or copper atoms in the Earth.
		Simon points out, however, that as the price of copper increases due to scarcity human beings find new sources of copper, find ways to recycle existing copper stocks and develop alternatives to copper.
	www.overpopulation.com /resources_infinite.html (492 words)

	Julian L. Simon: An Inspiration
		Simon appreciated the enormous cost mankind has paid throughout history when the population is estimated to have stayed stable at a few million, and life expectancy hovered in the twenties.
		Simon successfully challenged and helped turn on its head the centuries old Malthusian fear that a growing population will simply devour the planet, and lead to famine, disease and death of civilisation as we know it.
		Julian L. Simon's Home Page has a wide collection of his writings, and comments, and is accessible to any one interested in pursuing these further.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/libertyinstitute/jls.html (1665 words)

	Julian L. Simon: Liberty Institute Pays Tribute
		Julian L. Simon, of University of Maryland, a renowned economist, statistician and demographer, and a very close friend and advisor to Liberty Institute, passed away suddenly in February 1998.
		Simon, to keep alive the spirit of inquiry, courage and perseverance that he instilled in all those who came in contact with him.
		Simon was singularly responsible for changing the common misperception about population.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/libertyinstitute/julian.html (117 words)

	Julian Simon's Bet With Paul Ehrlich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simon is wrong about the economics of mineral resources The trough-like pattern long predicted for mineral resources prices has now shown up, as Cook (1976) points out, for all industrial metals except lead and aluminum.
		Julian Simon is like the guy who jumps off the Empire State Building and says how great things are going so far as he passes the 10th floor.
		Simon said he was willing to bet on the items in Ehrlich and Schneider's proposal that directly measures human welfare -- such as the per capita rice and wheat crops -- but that Ehrlich and Schneider insisted on betting on all fifteen propositions as a package deal.
	www.overpopulation.com /faq/People/julian_simon.html (1716 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Julian Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Economist Julian Simon is best known for his optimistic view of human progress and his response to neo-Malthusians, such as Paul Ehrlich, that technological and, therefore, economic progress is unlimited because human beings are creative and intellectually resourceful helping them over come material scarcity.
		Confident of his position, Simon bet Ehrlich in 1980 $1000 that 5 metals would be less expensive by the end of the decade because human beings would be creative enough to find alternatives or use them more efficiently.
		Simon continued to write on the benefits of population growth and immigration, the environment, and resources, publishing Theory of Population and Economic Growth (1986), The Economic Consequences of Immigration to the U.S. Population Matters (1990), The State of Humanity (1995), Hoodwinking the Nation (1999) and It's Getting Better All the Time (2000).
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75858.html (362 words)

	Julian Simon, Lifesaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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's ingenious solution simultaneously enables airlines to continue the efficient practice of overbooking while assuring passengers with tight schedules that they will not be bumped from overbooked flights.
		Julian's creative idea for handling overbooked flights is not as celebrated as is Henry Ford's idea for producing automobiles on assembly lines or Sam Walton's brilliant method of lowering retail prices.
	www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/juliansimon/julianlifesaver.html (1041 words)

	Julian Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Julian Simon (1932 - 1998) was professor of business administration at the University of Maryland[?] and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.
		In it, Simon challenged the neo-Malthusian notion that an increase in population has negative economic consequences, that population is a drain on natural resources, and that we stand at risk of running out of resources through over-consumption.
		Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered into a famous wager, betting on a mutually agreed upon metric of resource scarcity.
	www.termsdefined.net /ju/julian-simon.html (412 words)

	Julian Simon - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His book The Ultimate Resource, later reissued as The Ultimate Resource 2, is a criticism of the conventional wisdom of population growth and resource consumption.
		An article profiling Julian Simon in Wired magazine inspired Bjørn Lomborg to write the revisionist environmental book The Skeptical Environmentalist.
		Julian L. Simon is the world's greatest contrarian.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /julian_simon.htm (842 words)

	Julian Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Julian L. Simon––professor of business administration at the University of Maryland, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and member of the Acton Institute's advisory board––died February 8 of a heart attack at his Chevy Chase home.
		Simon graduated from Harvard University, where he completed the ROTC program, and later served as a naval officer before receiving an M.A. in business administration and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Business School.
		Julian Simon's personal home page, which includes his vitae, a list of his writings, and a brief biographical sketch.
	www.acton.org /ppolicy/environment/population/simon.html (396 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "Leaders & Success: Julian Simon."
		Said Simon: "The amazing part of the process is that the solutions they find leave us better off than if the problems had never arisen in the first place, and the people who created the problem in the first place provide the solution to the problem.
		As to immigrants' inundating the country, Simon notes that in a ratio to native-born citizens, immigration now is a fifth of what it was earlier in the century.
		Simon says that there may be a point of diminishing returns after which each additional immigrant contributes less and less to his new homeland, and that suddenly throwing the doors wide open may result in unforeseeable consequences.
	www.fumento.com /simon.html (1401 words)

	Julian Simon Remembered: It's A Wonderful Life
		Julian was the person who brought me to Washington in 1982 to work as his research assistant as he finished his next great book (coedited with the late futurist Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute) titled The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000.
		Simon’s dozens of books and his more than 200 academic articles always brought to bear a vast arsenal of compelling data on and analysis of how life on earth was getting better, not worse.
		Simon argued that we were not running out of food, water, oil, trees, clean air, or any other natural resource because throughout the course of human history the price of natural resources had been declining.
	www.cato.org /pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n2-1.html (1589 words)

	Julian Simon -
		Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed upon measure of resource...
		Julian Simon was an economist and demographer who taught at the University of Maryland at College Park, just...
		Julian L. Simon, of University of Maryland, a renowned economist, statistician and demographer, and a...
	simon.faagr.com /index.php?k=julian-simon (1023 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1980 Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered into a famous wager, betting on a mutually agreed upon metric of resource scarcity.
		Simon was one of the founders of free-market enviromentalism.
		Simon was an omnivorous reader, and took some steps toward writing a memoir.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/julian_simon.html (451 words)

	In appreciation of Julian Simon
		That day I learned from Julian Simon that human beings are a valuable resource and their wanton destruction through population control is not a help, but a hindrance, to economic development.
		Simon's views are already widely accepted, especially among his fellow economists, who are trained to understand price as a measure of scarcity.
		Simon's views are becoming respectable in the world at large as well, putting his ideological opposition increasingly on the defensive.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/population/pc0015.html (944 words)

	The Simon Market in Science Claims
		Julian L. Simon, a scholar who battled popular misconceptions with carefully researched facts, the Simon Market will employ economic tools to quantify the current consensus about questions of science, technology, and public policy.
		By implementing Dr. Robin Hanson's theories of idea futures, the Simon Market will allow (or if you prefer, force) experts to "put their money where their mouths are" by buying or selling coupons payable in the event that particular predictive claims prove true.
		Simon himself employed a similar technique, albeit on a smaller scale, in his famous wager with Dr. Paul Erlich.
	www.simonmarket.org (567 words)

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		Simon first got a taste of those facts while studying the data amassed by the economic demographer Simon Kuznets (winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in economics) and by economist Richard Easterlin, in the mid-1960s.
		Simon had by that time decided that the Malthusian stuff was the purest mythology, an invention out of whole cloth, a theory that was entirely controverted by every available empirical fact.
		Julian Simon read this stuff, which he viewed as unalloyed and total nonsense.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon_pr.html (6214 words)

	Liberty Institute \| First Annual Julian L. Simon Memorial Lecture
		Julian Simon, in whose memory this lecture series was inaugurated, was an economist and demographer at the University of Maryland in the US, and was singularly responsible for exposing the fallacy behind the Malthusian fear that growing human population would degrade the environment and the quality of life.
		Simon held, " The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time.
		Simon was instrumental in helping to establish the Liberty Institute as an independent, economic policy research and educational organisation, in 1995.
	www.libertyindia.org /events/simon_lecture.htm (839 words)

	Julian Simon: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Julian L. Simon teaches Business Administration at the University of Maryland and is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.
		Simon concludes that there is no reason why material life on earth should not continue to improve, and that increasing population contributes to that improvement in the long run.
		Simon has also written on a variety of other subjects, including statistics, research methods, the economics of advertising, and managerial economics.
	www.juliansimon.org /bio.html (330 words)

	Julian Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Julian Simon was a controversial demographer and economist.
		Simon stood for the notion that civilization was great, that man’s influence on the world was beneficial (at least for mankind), that capitalism was the ultimate alembic of social life.
		Simon was damned in apocalyptic terms, as if he were a Pied Piper, leading mankind toward a chilly, resource-deprived future.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jan98/simon.html (744 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Julian's Genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Julian Simon was a proponent of auctions, but not the Saturday morning farmyard kind.
		Julian went to airline executives, suggesting this as a method for solving their difficulty.
		Julian Simon, as many readers of TCS know, was a great believer in the power of ideas to change society for the better.
	www.techcentralstation.com /082203C.html (728 words)

	National Review: Julian Simon, RIP - conservative environmental economist - Editorial - Brief Article - Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simon's "doom-slayer" crusade began in the late 1970s during the era of energy crises, raging inflation, and global food shortages -- a time when we seemingly were all Malthusians.
		Simon argued that we were not running out of food, water, oil, trees, clean air, or any other natural resource because throughout human history the price of natural resources had been declining.
		I met Julian Simon in 1980 when I was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, where he taught economics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n4_v50/ai_20370954 (666 words)

	Less is less, More are better
		There was at least one other proponent of population growth who cited Julian Simon's 1981 work, The Ultimate Resource for support.
		Simon justified it all by his observations that on the whole, things have improved for humans.
		One of Simon's proponents (John Fulton Lewis, writing "Julian Simon Left You a Fortress of Facts" on http://www.allianceforamerica.org/0498004.htm) notes that The Ultimate Resource (published in 1981) was a needed antidote to the alarmist 1980 Global 2000 Report to the President.
	fortboise.org /morebetter.html (1478 words)

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		REVIEW OF: THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE, by Julian Simon This book is an all-out attack on neomalthusian or limits-to-growth thinking and a plea for more population and economic growth, both now and into the indefinite future.
		Simon's theoretical argument against the finitude of resources is that: "The word "finite" originates in mathematics, in which context we all learn it as schoolchildren.
		The very study that Simon appeals to for empirical support of his unlimited growth position explicitly rejects the notion of unlimited growth -- a fact that Simon fails to mention.
	rpuchalsky.home.att.net /sci_env/simon.txt (2969 words)

	Julian Simon - Appreciation
		The attacks often got personal: Simon's doctorate was in business economics, they sniffed; he had merely been a professor of advertising and marketing, and--get this--he had actually started a mail-order business and written a book about how to do it.
		Simon rarely presented a sentence not supported by facts--facts arranged in serried ranks to confront the opposition; facts about forests and food, pollution and poverty, nuclear power and nonrenewable resources; facts used as foot soldiers to strike blows for accuracy.
		Simon sensed the primacy of something else that many environmentalists and crisis-mongers didn't catch on to for a quite a time: Human intellect could best be transformed into beneficial goods and services in an atmosphere of political and economic liberty.
	www.juliansimon.com /appreciation.html (644 words)

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