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Author: Julian Lincoln Simon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 4.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.162kg
ISBN: 9780691003818
ISBN 10: 0691003815
Pages: 784
Publication Date: 21 July 1998
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
""Julian Simon's 1981 book The Ultimate Resource excoriated prominent environmentalists for resorting to scare tactics and data-bending... As Simon notes, the past sixteen years have been kind to many of his ideas... Much as Simon had predicted, global per capita food production edged upward steadily while population rose and air quality improved in many places and ways.""--Kathleen Courrier, The Washington Post ""With a full understanding of the opposition and smears he would encounter, Simon nevertheless wrote The Economics of Population Growth, Population Matters, and his best-known book, The Ultimate Resource. To him, the ultimate resource was human intelligence. We should also add, in honor of Simon, the courage to use that intelligence.""--Thomas Sowell, Chicago Sun-Times ""The most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last fifteen years.""--The Washington Post Book World ""Compelling and often brilliantly original... [Simon's] economic analysis will leave a lot of readers heavily revising their thinking about the world around them.""--Fortune ""The Ultimate Resource is the most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last 15 years... What is most startling is its deep-rooted optimism about the human condition... [A] landmark book.""--Washington Post Book World ""The truly delightful aspect of the book is its persistent iconoclasm. Page after page, Simon punctures myths of scarcity and offers instead the counsels of optimism.""--The American Spectator ""Julian Simon, an economics professor, systematically, shockingly, irresponsibly explodes each and every foundation of the whole environmental movement. And he does so with so many facts, graphs and examples that it would be a strange person who could walk away from reading this book without his or her faith in the assumptions of the environmental movement being just a little bit shaken up... This is a magnificent book with the power to change minds.""--Matt Ridley, The Sunday Telegraph
Julian Simon's 1981 book The Ultimate Resource excoriated prominent environmentalists for resorting to scare tactics and data-bending... As Simon notes, the past sixteen years have been kind to many of his ideas... Much as Simon had predicted, global per capita food production edged upward steadily while population rose and air quality improved in many places and ways. -- Kathleen Courrier The Washington Post With a full understanding of the opposition and smears he would encounter, Simon nevertheless wrote The Economics of Population Growth, Population Matters, and his best-known book, The Ultimate Resource. To him, the ultimate resource was human intelligence. We should also add, in honor of Simon, the courage to use that intelligence. -- Thomas Sowell Chicago Sun-Times The most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last fifteen years. The Washington Post Book World Compelling and often brilliantly original... [Simon's] economic analysis will leave a lot of readers heavily revising their thinking about the world around them. Fortune The Ultimate Resource is the most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last 15 years... What is most startling is its deep-rooted optimism about the human condition... [A] landmark book. Washington Post Book World The truly delightful aspect of the book is its persistent iconoclasm. Page after page, Simon punctures myths of scarcity and offers instead the counsels of optimism. The American Spectator Julian Simon, an economics professor, systematically, shockingly, irresponsibly explodes each and every foundation of the whole environmental movement. And he does so with so many facts, graphs and examples that it would be a strange person who could walk away from reading this book without his or her faith in the assumptions of the environmental movement being just a little bit shaken up... This is a magnificent book with the power to change minds. -- Matt Ridley The Sunday Telegraph
Julian Simon, an economics professor, systematically, shockingly, irresponsibly explodes each and every foundation of the whole environmental movement. And he does so with so many facts, graphs and examples that it would be a strange person who could walk away from reading this book without his or her faith in the assumptions of the environmental movement being just a little bit shaken up. . . . This is a magnificent book with the power to change minds. --Matt Ridley, The Sunday Telegraph The truly delightful aspect of the book is its persistent iconoclasm. Page after page, Simon punctures myths of scarcity and offers instead the counsels of optimism. --The American Spectator The Ultimate Resource is the most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last 15 years. . . . What is most startling is its deep-rooted optimism about the human condition. . . . [A] landmark book. --Washington Post Book World Compelling and often brilliantly original. . . . [Simon's] economic analysis will leave a lot of readers heavily revising their thinking about the world around them. --Fortune The most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last fifteen years. --The Washington Post Book World With a full understanding of the opposition and smears he would encounter, Simon nevertheless wrote The Economics of Population Growth, Population Matters, and his best-known book, The Ultimate Resource. To him, the ultimate resource was human intelligence. We should also add, in honor of Simon, the courage to use that intelligence. --Thomas Sowell, Chicago Sun-Times Julian Simon's 1981 book The Ultimate Resource excoriated prominent environmentalists for resorting to scare tactics and data-bending.... As Simon notes, the past sixteen years have been kind to many of his ideas.... Much as Simon had predicted, global per capita food production edged upward steadily while population rose and air quality improved in many places and ways. --Kathleen Courrier, The Washington Post
Julian Simon's 1981 book The Ultimate Resource excoriated prominent environmentalists for resorting to scare tactics and data-bending... As Simon notes, the past sixteen years have been kind to many of his ideas... Much as Simon had predicted, global per capita food production edged upward steadily while population rose and air quality improved in many places and ways. -- Kathleen Courrier The Washington Post With a full understanding of the opposition and smears he would encounter, Simon nevertheless wrote The Economics of Population Growth, Population Matters, and his best-known book, The Ultimate Resource. To him, the ultimate resource was human intelligence. We should also add, in honor of Simon, the courage to use that intelligence. -- Thomas Sowell Chicago Sun-Times The most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last fifteen years. The Washington Post Book World Compelling and often brilliantly original... [Simon's] economic analysis will leave a lot of readers heavily revising their thinking about the world around them. Fortune The Ultimate Resource is the most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last 15 years... What is most startling is its deep-rooted optimism about the human condition... [A] landmark book. Washington Post Book World The truly delightful aspect of the book is its persistent iconoclasm. Page after page, Simon punctures myths of scarcity and offers instead the counsels of optimism. The American Spectator Julian Simon, an economics professor, systematically, shockingly, irresponsibly explodes each and every foundation of the whole environmental movement. And he does so with so many facts, graphs and examples that it would be a strange person who could walk away from reading this book without his or her faith in the assumptions of the environmental movement being just a little bit shaken up... This is a magnificent book with the power to change minds. -- Matt Ridley The Sunday Telegraph
Julian Simon's 1981 book The Ultimate Resource excoriated prominent environmentalists for resorting to scare tactics and data-bending... As Simon notes, the past sixteen years have been kind to many of his ideas... Much as Simon had predicted, global per capita food production edged upward steadily while population rose and air quality improved in many places and ways. -- Kathleen Courrier, The Washington Post With a full understanding of the opposition and smears he would encounter, Simon nevertheless wrote The Economics of Population Growth, Population Matters, and his best-known book, The Ultimate Resource. To him, the ultimate resource was human intelligence. We should also add, in honor of Simon, the courage to use that intelligence. -- Thomas Sowell, Chicago Sun-Times The most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last fifteen years. -- The Washington Post Book World Compelling and often brilliantly original... [Simon's] economic analysis will leave a lot of readers heavily revising their thinking about the world around them. -- Fortune The Ultimate Resource is the most powerful challenge to be mounted against the principles of popular environmentalism in the last 15 years... What is most startling is its deep-rooted optimism about the human condition... [A] landmark book. -- Washington Post Book World The truly delightful aspect of the book is its persistent iconoclasm. Page after page, Simon punctures myths of scarcity and offers instead the counsels of optimism. -- The American Spectator Julian Simon, an economics professor, systematically, shockingly, irresponsibly explodes each and every foundation of the whole environmental movement. And he does so with so many facts, graphs and examples that it would be a strange person who could walk away from reading this book without his or her faith in the assumptions of the environmental movement being just a little bit shaken up... This is a magnificent book with the power to change minds. -- Matt Ridley, The Sunday Telegraph
Author Information
Julian L. Simon, until his death in 1998, was Professor of Business Administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Among his books are Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays (Princeton), The Economic Consequences of Immigration to the United States, Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment, and Immigration, and The State of Humanity.
