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Cato Institute
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1952223393
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Superabundance : The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
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520 Pages
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English
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Globalization, Economics / General, Free Enterprise
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2022
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Political Science, Business & Economics
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Gale L. Pooley, Marian L. Tupy
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More people produce more ideas and innovations. They also produce more nonsense. It is not resources, but hope and common sense that are scarce. Human ingenuity can come up with a solution for every scarcity, though, and now we have an antidote to nonsense as well: this magnificent, ground-breaking book by Tupy and Pooley., My father, Julian Simon, would have treasured Tupy's and Pooley's 'Superabundance.' Its breathtaking scope, encyclopedic data, and deep and precise analysis of both economics and history powerfully confirm that people are indeed the ultimate resource--and that a growing population, particularly with greater freedom, has and willovercome every challenge and will, in virtually every measurable way, continue to enjoy greater prosperity., My father, Julian Simon, would have treasured Tupy and Pooley's 'Superabundance.' Its breathtaking scope, encyclopedic data, and deep and precise analysis of both economics and history powerfully confirm that people are indeed the ultimate resource--and that a growing population, particularly with greater freedom, has and will overcome every challenge and will, in virtually every measurable way, continue to enjoy greater prosperity., It's true that we live on a delicate planet that is composed of a finite number of atoms. But as this fascinating and heartening book shows, it's also true that we humans can increaseboth our population and prosperity as much as we want without endangering the Earth. The key, as Tupy and Pooley show, is innovation. Read'Superabundance'to have your assumptions challenged and your sense of hope restored., Many people think that superabundance is too good to be true. More of something can be a blessing, but to take the obvious counterexample, superabundance of fossil fuel is a potentially catastrophic curse. If doomsters could recognize the innovative capacity revealed by superabundance and boomsters could admit that the market can blindly misdirect that capacity, the two sides could agree that all it takes to sustain progress are small policy adjustments that point innovation in the right direction., We are living in signal times. The rate at which everything is changing is unparalleled. Two starkly divergent paths present themselves before us: movement toward an era of superabundance, where everyone could have everything they needed, or degeneration into a state of apocalypse-inspired, faux-compassionate, authoritarian hell. Could we choose the former path? Tupy and Pooley, anything but naive optimists, say yes, and explain why. Read this book. It's a valid antidote to demoralization, cynicism and hopelessness., 'Superabundance' pulls off the remarkable feat of being both exhaustive and entertaining at the same time. It adds a critical piece to the growing canon of books documenting the rapid improvements in the quality of human life: an explanation that is grounded in rapid population growth. Anyone that cares about the future of humanity should read this book., There are those who wish for scarcities, and who work to inhibit economic growth, so that government can claim an excuse to ration this and that. Happily, they have met their match in Tupy and Pooley, who demonstrate that population growth is not a problem, it is the solution--the most important resource., The decline of poverty and famine and disease and violence over the past few decades has been spectacular, as Tupy and Pooley demonstrate. There is every reason to think it can continue and our grandchildren will look back on today's world with horror and pity. This book is a comprehensive, detailed, and devastating riposte to the perpetual pessimists who dominate modern discourse., "With great writing and a mountain of good evidence, Tupy and Pooley remind us that we are immeasurably better off than our ancestors. In this day of pestilence, war, and climate change, we need that reminder, and we can hope that the doommongers will be wrong about the future, just as they have always been wrong about the past." --ANGUS DEATON, Nobel Prize-winning economist "For centuries, the ivory towers of academia have echoed this sentiment of multitudinous ends and limited means. In this supremely contrarian book, Tupy and Pooley overturn the tables in the temple of conventional thinking. They deploy rigorous and original data and analysis to proclaim a gospel of abundance. Economicsand ultimately, politicswill be enduringly transformed." --GEORGE GILDER, author of Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World "People don't depend on stuff; they depend on ideas--formulas, algorithms, knowledge--which allow stuff, useless by itself, to satisfy our wants. In this lucid and illuminating book, Tupy and Pooley lucidly use this insight to explain a fact that, surprisingly, surprises people: over the centuries, our increasing knowledge has made more stuff available to us." --STEVEN PINKER, author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress "There are those who wish for scarcities, and who work to inhibit economic growth, so that government can claim an excuse to ration this and that. Happily, they have met their match in Tupy and Pooley, who demonstrate that population growth is not a problem, it is the solution--the most important resource." --GEORGE WILL, Washington Post, A compelling account of humanity's cooperative victory over the Hobbesian state of nature and Malthusian constraints to growth. Tupy and Pooley provide a much needed and convincing manifesto for optimism that celebrates people as the ultimate resource for progress., Our future is a battle between positive-sum technology and zero-sum mentalities. Tupy and Pooley show that we have the numbers on our side and that the long-term trend in resource abundance is promising., Every generation has a new Malthusian panic about world population growth, but every generation also produces a voice of reason to counter the panic.Tupy and Pooley's brilliant book is deeply convincing that natural resources are actually becoming less scarce with growing population, pointing the way to continued economic progress., In a tsunami of bad news about Russian revanchism, nuclear saber rattling, global warming, inflation, supply chain shortages, and a pandemic emerges 'Superabundance,' a data-fueled corrective to the doom-and-gloom the media daily heaps upon us. Tupy and Pooley have done the world a service with this fact-filled reminder of how good our lives are compared to ages past, and how much more human flourishing is in store if we unleash human innovation., There are those who wish for scarcities, and who work to inhibit economic growth, so that government can claim an excuse to ration this and that. Happily, they have met their match in Tupy and Pooley, who demonstrate that population growth is not a problem; it is the solution--the most important resource., With great writing and a mountain of good evidence, Tupy and Pooley remind us that we are immeasurably better-off than our ancestors. In this day of pestilence, war, and climate change, we need that reminder, and we can hope that the doom-mongers will be wrong about the future, just as they have always been wrong about the past., Pessimism sells, which is strange. But the scientific evidence shows that optimism is a lot more sensible. Stop weeping. Read the book, and smile., People don't depend on stuff; they depend on ideas--formulas, algorithms, knowledge--which allow stuff, useless by itself, to satisfy our wants. In this lucid and illuminating book, Tupy and Pooley lucidly use this insight to explain a fact that, surprisingly, surprises people: over the centuries, our increasing knowledge has made more stuff available to us., In their essential and provocative new book, Tupy and Pooley show that the ultimate resource remains human ingenuity. 'Superabundance' is a must-read for anyone who cares about the fate of humankind and our bountiful, beautiful planet., The decline of povertyand famine and disease and violence over the past few decades has been spectacular, as Tupy and Pooley demonstrate. There is every reason to think it can continue and our grandchildrenwill look back on today's world with horror and pity. This book is a comprehensive, detailed and devastating riposte to the perpetual pessimists who dominate modern discourse., It's true that we live on a delicate planet that is composed of a finite number of atoms. But as this fascinating and heartening book shows, it's also true that we humans can increase both our population and prosperity as much as we want without endangering the Earth. The key, as Tupy and Pooley show, is innovation. Read Superabundance to have your assumptions challenged and your sense of hope restored., More people produce more ideas and innovations. They also produce more nonsense. It is not resources but hope and common sense that are scarce. Human ingenuity can come up with a solution for every scarcity, though, and now we have an antidote to nonsense as well: this magnificent, groundbreaking book by Tupy and Pooley., Tupy and Pooley document beyond the faintest doubt that we ordinary men and women in modern market economies today enjoy a material standard of living that is indescribably superior not only to that of our pre-industrial ancestors, but to that of our grandparents and even--in many ways--to that of our parents. The expertly assembled evidence in this book should finally silence the many professors and pundits who peddle the false tale that, over the past half-century, only the rich have gotten richer. Tupy and Pooley bust the myth of middle-class stagnation to smithereens., Our future is a battle between positive-sum technology and zero-sum mentalities. Tupy and Pooley show that we have the numbers on our side, and that the long-term trend in resource abundance is promising., We are living in signal times. The rate at which everything is changing is unparalleled, as is the increase in that rate itself. Two starkly divergent paths therefore present themselves before us, more clearly than ever before: movement toward an era of superabundance, where everyone could have everything they needed and perhaps even most of what they wanted, or degeneration into a state of apocalypse-inspired, faux-compassionate, authoritarian hell, perhaps worse than anything we saw in the most extreme excesses of the twentieth century. Could we choose the former path?Tupy and Pooley, anything but naive optimists, say yes, and explain why. Read this book. It's a valid antidote to demoralization, cynicism and hopelessness., In a tsunami of bad news about Russian revanchism, nuclear saber rattling, global warming, inflation, supply chain shortages, and a pandemic emerges Superabundance, a data-fueled corrective to the doom and gloom the media daily heaps upon us. Tupy and Pooley have done the world a service with this fact-filled reminder of how good our lives are compared to ages past, and how much more human flourishing is in store if we unleash human innovation., We are living in signal times. The rate at which everything is changing is unparalleled, as is the increase in that rate itself. Two starkly divergent paths therefore present themselves before us, more clearly than ever before: movement toward an era of superabundance, where everyone could have everything they needed and perhaps even most of what they wanted, or degeneration into a state of apocalypse-inspired, faux-compassionate, authoritarian hell, perhaps worse than anything we saw in the most extreme excesses of the 20th century. Could we choose the former path? Tupy and Pooley, anything but naive optimists, say yes and explain why. Read this book. It's a valid antidote to demoralization, cynicism, and hopelessness.
Table Of Content
contents Foreword by George Gilder Introduction part one Thanos's deadly idea: from antiquity to the present and beyond Chapter 1: Are we in the midst of progress, or are we facing the apocalypse? Chapter 2: Thanos's intellectual and practical progenitors Chapter 3: Julian Simon and the bet that made him famous part two Measuring abundance: new methodology, empirical evidence, and in-depth analysis Chapter 4: Introduction to the Simon Abundance Framework Chapter 5: Personal resource abundance: empirical evidence and analysis Chapter 6: Population resource abundance: methodology, evidence, and analysis part three Human flourishing and its enemies Chapter 7: Humanity's 7-million-year journey from the African rainforest to the Industrial Revolution Chapter 8: The Age of Innovation and the Great Enrichment Chapter 9: Where do innovations come from? The crucial roles played by population growth and freedom Chapter 10: The enemies of progress from the Romantics to the extreme environmentalists Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendixes Notes Index About the Authors
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"For centuries, the ivory towers of academia have echoed this sentiment of multitudinous ends and limited means. In this supremely contrarian book, Tupy and Pooley overturn the tables in the temple of conventional thinking. They deploy rigorous and original data and analysis to proclaim a gospel of abundance. Economics--and ultimately, politics--will be enduringly transformed." --George Gilder, author of Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued, "The world's rapidly growing population is consuming the planet's natural resources at an alarming rate . . . the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources . . . [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030." But is that true? After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at "time prices," which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population--a relationship that they call "superabundance." On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true. Why? More people produce more ideas, which lead to more inventions. People then test those inventions in the marketplace to separate the useful from the useless. At the end of that process of discovery, people are left with innovations that overcome shortages, spur economic growth, and raise standards of living. But large populations are not enough to sustain superabundance--just think of the poverty in China and India before their respective economic reforms. To innovate, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate, and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade, and profit. In a word, they must be free., This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earths resources more, not less, abundant., Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued, "The world's rapidly growing population is consuming the planet's natural resources at an alarming rate ... the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources ... [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030." But is that true? After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at "time prices," which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the populationa relationship that they call "superabundance." On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true. Why? More people produce more ideas, which lead to more inventions. People then test those inventions in the marketplace to separate the useful from the useless. At the end of that process of discovery, people are left with innovations that overcome shortages, spur economic growth, and raise standards of living. But large populations are not enough to sustain superabundancejust think of the poverty in China and India before their respective economic reforms. To innovate, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate, and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade, and profit. In a word, they must be free.
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HB849.41.T75 2022

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