resources

^{Gale Pooley
September 6, 2023
Growth}

Desalinating Water Is Becoming “Absurdly Cheap,” Elon Musk schools Bill Maher

_{Gale Pooley
September 6, 2023
Growth}

When Maher claimed that we are running out of water, Elon replied that “Earth is 70 percent water.” Maher shot back that “you can’t drink that.” Musk calmly replied that desalination is “absurdly cheap.” Read More ›

^{Bill Walton
August 31, 2023
Free Enterprise}

“Capitalism’s Promise: Essentially Infinite Resources and Human Flourishing” with George Gilder and John Tamny

_{Bill Walton
August 31, 2023
Free Enterprise}

Watch the episode here. I’m talking in this episode with the upbeat and visionary George Gilder, one of America’s leading economic and technological thinkers, and the author of the groundbreaking books, Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Moneyand now: Life after Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money Co-hosting with me is the equally upbeat and contrarian thinker John Tamny, founder of Parkview Institute, editor of RealClearMarkets and author of the recently published The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for a Crypto Revolution“ Life after Capitalism launches a new economic theory. A key theme of the book is that wealth is knowledge and that the difference Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
August 4, 2022
Growth}

Are We Running Out?

_{Gale Pooley
August 4, 2022
Growth}

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 ›

^{Gale Pooley
April 26, 2022
Growth}

Visualizing Global Resource Abundance

_{Gale Pooley
April 26, 2022
Growth}

Think pizzas. Personal resource abundance is the size of the slice. Global resource abundance is the size of the pie. Global resource abundance is the product of the size of the slice multiplied by the size of the population. Read More ›

Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley on Human Progress Podcast

^{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
April 22, 2021
Growth, Wealth Creation}

Gale Pooley Discusses The Simon Abundance Index on The Human Progress Podcast

_{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
April 22, 2021
Growth, Wealth Creation}

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 ›