Julian Lincoln Simon

...asbestos, and the chemical contamination at Love Canal. Simon was one of the founders of free-market environmentalism. profiling Julian Simon in ''Wired '' magazine inspired Bjorn Lomborg to write the book ''The Skeptical...

In this article: Paul R. Ehrlich, Copper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bjorn Lomborg, Jared Diamond, Stephen Moore, and Albert Bartlett

...and they will require everyone at the table, working together toward solutions. Declining Yields on the Horizon About 30 years ago Julian Simon, an economist, made a famous bet with Paul Ehrlich, the entomology professor and author of "The...

In this article: Climate change, Global warming, Julian Simon, United States, Genetically modified food, Cornell University, and Paul Ehrlich

In 1980, Paul Ehrlich, a population activist and Stanford professor, famously bet Julian Simon, the late Cato Institute scholar, that, because of human pressures, the prices of five key metals would rise by 1990. In fact, the prices fell...

In this article: Hydrogen, Joseph Romm, Julian Simon, Toyota, Appropriation, and Hydrogen fuel

I'm more concerned about Grenham's endorsement of wanton babymaking: Economists such as Esther Boserup, Peter Bauer, Julian Simon and Bjorn Lomborg have shown that in spite, and even because of, population growth the state of the...

In this article: Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Catholic Herald, Climate change, Global warming, Optimum Population Trust, Wikipedia, London School of Economics, and Julian Simon

...fell in price by over 57% over the following decade. As a result, in October 1990, Paul Ehrlich mailed Julian Simon a check for $576.07 to settle the wager in Simon's favor. A large section of the book is dedicated to showing how...

In this article: Copper, Paul Ehrlich, Tin, The Ultimate Resource, Ceteris paribus, Coal, Inflation, and Tungsten

...McLachlan, Bette Midler, Julia Morgan, Al Neuharth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abe Pollin, Colin Powell, Anne Rice, Dot Richardson, Julian Simon, Ted Turner, Kevin Williamson, Oprah Winfrey, Henry Winkler and Tiger Woods. That's 32 names. I...

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...a pound in 1980, was down to $3.88 a decade later. As a result, in October 1990, Paul Ehrlich mailed Julian Simon a check for $576.07 to settle the wager in Simon's favor. It's not clear if Ehrlich consulted with economists. If he had, the...

In this article: Paul Ehrlich, Julian L. Simon, Copper, Tin, Inflation, Tungsten, and Hydrogen fuel

...threat. In 1980, John Holdren participated in the infamous bet between Ehrlich and the late cornucopian economist Julian Simon over natural resource trends. Ehrlich and Holdren believed humanity risked running out of nonrenewable...

In this article: John Holdren, Paul Ehrlich, Barack Obama, Julian Simon, Bjorn Lomborg, The Population Bomb, Global warming, American Association, and Ideology

...of the experts in natural resources whom Paul Ehrlich enlisted in his famous bet against the economist Julian Simon during the "energy crisis" of the 1980s. Dr. Simon, who disagreed with environmentalists' predictions of a new "age of...

In this article: Julian Simon, Inflation, Global warming, TARP, University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard

...Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. Tierney, an admirer of late University of Maryland business professor Julian Simon, likes his chances. The last time commodity prices soared, in the late 1970s, Simon bet...

In this article: Matthew Simmons, Julian Simon, John Tierney, God, University of Maryland, and New York Times