Marian L Tupy, Gale L Pooley

Superabundance

The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

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Produktbeschreibung

This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth's resources more, not less, abundant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cato Institute
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 910g
• ISBN-13: 9781952223587
• ISBN-10: 195222358X
• Artikelnr.: 65336806

Autorenporträt

Gale L. Pooley is an associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. He has taught economics and statistics at Alfaisal Univerity in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Brigham Young University-Idaho; Boise State University; and the College of Idaho. Pooley has held professional designations from the Appraisal Institute, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the CCIM Institute. He has published articles in National Review, HumanProgress.org, The American Spectator, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Utah Bar Journal, the Appraisal Journal, Quillette, Forbes, and RealClearMarkets. Pooley is a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, a board member of HumanProgress.org, and a scholar with Hawaii's Grassroot Institute. His major research activity has been the Simon Abundance Index, which he coauthored with Marian Tupy. Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and coauthor of the Simon Abundance Index. He specializes in globalization and global well-being and the politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. He is the coauthor of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting (Cato Institute, 2020). His articles have been published in the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the UK Spectator, Foreign Policy, and various other outlets in the United States and overseas. He has appeared on BBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, and other channels. Tupy received his BA in international relations and classics from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD in international relations from the University of St. Andrews in Great Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword by George Gilder
Introduction
part one
Thanos's deadly idea: from antiquity to the present and beyond
Chapter 1: Are we in the midst of progress, or are we facing the
apocalypse?
Chapter 2: Thanos's intellectual and practical progenitors
Chapter 3: Julian Simon and the bet that made him famous
part two
Measuring abundance: new methodology, empirical evidence, and in-depth
analysis
Chapter 4: Introduction to the Simon Abundance Framework
Chapter 5: Personal resource abundance: empirical evidence and analysis
Chapter 6: Population resource abundance: methodology, evidence, and
analysis
part three
Human flourishing and its enemies
Chapter 7: Humanity's 7-million-year journey from the African rainforest to
the Industrial Revolution
Chapter 8: The Age of Innovation and the Great Enrichment
Chapter 9: Where do innovations come from? The crucial roles played by
population growth and freedom
Chapter 10: The enemies of progress from the Romantics to the extreme
environmentalists
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendixes
Notes
Index
About the Authors