Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that Senior Fellow Gale Pooley is the recipient of the 2023 Julian L. Simon Award along with Marian L. Tupy, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Are resources becoming more or less abundant? To answer this question we analyzed the change in the time prices of 50 basic commodities from 1980 to 2020. Recall that 1980 was the year Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered into their famous 10-year $1,000 bet on the price of five metals. Read More ›
From 1980 to 2020, every one percent increase in population corresponded to a four percent increase in personal resource abundance and an eight percent increase in global resource abundance. Read More ›
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley on Human Progress Podcast
Gale Pooley joined his colleague Marian Tupy to give an annual update on their Simon Abundance Index. Named after University of Maryland economist Julian Simon, the Simon Abundance Index measures the change in abundance of resources over a period of time. Read More ›
