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Green corn field with corn cobs close up.

^{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
December 3, 2022
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Healing Peter’s Pessimism

_{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
December 3, 2022
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While it is easy to be pessimistic if you compare today to utopia, a much better perspective is to look at yesterday and see how far we’ve come in our journey to lift everyone from poverty. We’re experiencing growth in material abundance, time abundance, and choice abundance. Welcome to Superabundance! Read More ›

^{Eric Grover
December 2, 2022
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Review of Superabundance on RealClearMarkets

_{Eric Grover
December 2, 2022
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Ronald Reagan said “There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.” In Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet the Cato Institute’s Marian Tupy and Brigham Young professor Gale Pooley make a cogent, empirically-grounded case for Reagan’s full-throated optimism. Read More ›

Cropped image of a young african sportsman

^{Gale Pooley
October 26, 2022
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A Tale of Two Curves: Physical Life vs. Economic Life

_{Gale Pooley
October 26, 2022
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Our economic lives improve if we are free to continuously add knowledge to our planet’s atoms. Knowledge makes atoms more valuable and more abundant at the same time. To better understand our world, we need to focus on the growth of knowledge instead of the aging of our bodies. We face limits to our mortality, but not limits to the growth in value-creating knowledge. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
September 24, 2022
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Superabundance in the Washington Times

_{Gale Pooley
September 24, 2022
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Escaping grinding deprivation has been the aspiration of humanity since the dawn of time. Now that many of the planet’s peoples are blessed with sufficient means of survival — and some with plenty — a trendy narrative threatens to turn the dream into a nightmare. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
August 16, 2022
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Refrigerator Abundance

_{Gale Pooley
August 16, 2022
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The next time you open your refrigerator to enjoy a cool beverage or a frozen dessert, thank all of our fellow human beings who work to discover and create little bits of knowledge each day that show up in the innovation abundance all around us. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
August 4, 2022
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Are We Running Out?

_{Gale Pooley
August 4, 2022
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The quantity of things is important, but it’s the value of things that count. And value can change as fast as people can change their minds. Read More ›

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks with Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, during the Ira C. Eaker Distinguished Speaker Presentation in the Academy's Arnold Hall on April 7, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Trevor cokley)

^{Gale Pooley
July 26, 2022
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Elon Musk’s Learning Curves

_{Gale Pooley
July 26, 2022
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Musk is growing car and rocket knowledge every day. If he really wants to advance humanity let’s hope he can turn to generating green clean electricity knowledge next. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
July 19, 2022
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Work Less, Earn More, Live Longer

_{Gale Pooley
July 19, 2022
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In 1856 men in the U.K. had a life expectancy of around 58 years, or 502,860 life hours. According to a study by Professors Jesse Ausubel and Arnulf Grübler, over the course of their lives, these men typically spent around 30 percent of their time, or 149,700 hours working. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
May 18, 2022
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Cordless Drills on Sale: Buy One, Get 41.8 Free

_{Gale Pooley
May 18, 2022
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Technically speaking, the first “cordless” drill was called a bit and brace drill invented hundreds of years ago. You can still buy one of these classics at Amazon for around $57. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
May 13, 2022
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Elon Musk Gets an A in Econ. Janet Yellen Gets a D-

_{Gale Pooley
May 13, 2022
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Elon Musk and Julian Simon are right. Janet Yellen and Thanos are wrong. More human beings create much more wealth for all of us to enjoy, if given the freedom to innovate by learning and discovering new valuable knowledge to share in free markets. Invest in people. We pay the highest dividends. Read More ›