All Posts Tagged With: "human ingenuity"
Wonders in Perspective
Do you ever wonder why the major news media cover NASA’s shuttle flights so extensively? I do. Every time a shuttle launches or lands, several broadcast media cover these events live. And replays are shown on the evening news. Likewise, whenever a shuttle flight is in progress, we get regular reports on the news of [...]
1Jun2001 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedOh, What a Piece of Work Is a Man
Ted Roberts is a freelance writer in Huntsville, Alabama, who often writes on public-policy issues. Will, the manager of the new Globe Theater in London, was frustrated. Tickets were priced alluringly cheap, but he made a nice profit on ale at 2 shillings a mug. However, the customers insisted on smuggling in their own ale, [...]
1Mar2001 | Ted Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Creativity
Leonard Read’s most celebrated essay is his brilliant “I, Pencil.” Even Milton Friedman—no slouch at bringing economics to life—acknowledges a debt to Read for demonstrating so vividly the enormous amount of human cooperation routinely achieved by free markets. “I, Pencil” makes clear that the knowledge and cooperation of literally millions of people are necessary to [...]
1Mar2001 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedInventing Life in Cuba
Marc Olshan is a professor of sociology at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. In the hills of the Sierra de Cubitas, Cuba, a rusted-out truck loaded with scavenged lumber creeps onto the broken pavement. The lumber sticks out well past the end of the flatbed and, lacking a piece of cloth, the driver has [...]
1Apr1998 | Marc A. Olshan | 1 comment | ContinuedJulian Simon, Lifesaver
The real issue is not whether one cares about nature, but whether one cares about people. Julian L. Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2 (1996) Julian Simon’s unexpected death in February brought a major loss. With the passing of this noted free-market champion, humankind lost a genuine hero; the economics profession lost one of its most [...]
1Apr1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 2 comments | ContinuedOur Ultimate Resource Gone
On February 8 Julian Simon died. Difficult words to write, those. We have suffered a terrible loss on many levels. He was, first of all, a wonderful human being—ever positive, smiling, encouraging; a joy to be around. After that, he was one of freedom’s great crusaders. (When Don Boudreaux created FEE’s Council of Scholars last [...]
1Apr1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Simon
Princeton University Press • 1996 • 734 pages • $35.00 E. C. Pasour is professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. In this powerful and unrestrained challenge to environmental doomsayers, Julian Simon has updated and further substantiated the conclusions of his 1981 book The Ultimate Resource. The standard of living [...]
1Apr1998 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 0 comments | Continued-
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