Superabundance

Due to Coronavirus Covid-19 airline fleet parked at the taxiway of Airport

^{Gale Pooley
March 27, 2024
Free Enterprise, Growth}

The Abundance of Air Travel Since 1970

_{Gale Pooley
March 27, 2024
Free Enterprise, Growth}

Transcontinental flights were once a luxury. Now they are affordable for almost everyone. Free-market entrepreneurial capitalism isn’t about making more luxuries for the wealthy, it’s about making luxuries common for the average person. Read More ›

Stack of money coins with retro alarm clock

^{Gale Pooley
March 20, 2024
Growth}

The Good Old Days Were Really Expensive

_{Gale Pooley
March 20, 2024
Growth}

We buy things with money but pay for them with our time. Money prices are expressed in dollars and cents, while time prices are expressed in hours and minutes. A time price is simply the money price divided by hourly income. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
January 17, 2024
Growth}

TVs Versus Degrees

_{Gale Pooley
January 17, 2024
Growth}

Government heavily subsidizes demand and restricts supply in higher education. We should not be surprised when this translates into much higher prices. Read More ›

Lovely christmas tree with beautifuly packed presents boxes under it

^{Gale Pooley
December 13, 2023
Growth}

The 12 Items of Christmas and Abundance

_{Gale Pooley
December 13, 2023
Growth}

Wage growth outpaced 11 of the 12 items reviewed. Read More ›

Family praying holding hands at Thanksgiving table. Flat-lay of feasting peoples hands over Friendsgiving table with Autumn food, candles, roasted turkey and pumpkin pie over wooden table, top view

^{Gale Pooley
November 20, 2023
Growth}

Thanksgiving will be 13 Percent More Abundant This Year

_{Gale Pooley
November 20, 2023
Growth}

Remember it’s not how expensive things are, it’s how affordable they are that counts. To measure affordability we must compare prices to wages. Read More ›

Sunset Landscape with Ripe Wheat Field. Generative AI

^{Bill Walton
November 17, 2023
Growth}

Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet with Marian Tupy

_{Bill Walton
November 17, 2023
Growth}

The United States and the European Union have added 35% more new forests in recent decades. China, 15% more forests. Read More ›

^{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 ›

the interior metal manufacturing the view from the top

^{George F. Will
July 19, 2023}

George Will: Progressive Gloom Ignores a Marvelous Historical Economic Measure

_{George F. Will
July 19, 2023}

In “Life After Capitalism,” George Gilder, citing Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley in the Cato Institute’s volume “Superabundance,” writes that “between 1980 and 2022, workers have been able to buy some 300 percent more goods and services with their hours and minutes.” The secret sauce is applied knowledge. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
May 5, 2023
Growth}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Gale Pooley is 2023 Julian L. Simon Award Co-Recipient

_{Discovery Institute
May 5, 2023
Growth}

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 ›

^{Eric Grover
December 2, 2022
Growth}

Review of Superabundance on RealClearMarkets

_{Eric Grover
December 2, 2022
Growth}

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 ›