All Posts Tagged With: "population growth"

Population Control Nonsense

According to an American Dream article, “Al Gore, Agenda 21 and Population Control,” there are too many of us and it has a negative impact on the earth. Here’s what the United Nations Population Fund said in its annual State of the World Population Report for 2009, “Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate”: [...]

30Nov2011 | Walter E. Williams | 10 comments | Continued

Roots of Egypt’s Revolt

Egypt has been a pressure cooker for decades. Like others in the region, the Mubarak regime was sitting atop a simmering political crisis, simultaneously attempting to contain rising Islamist violence and snuff out pockets of political resistance. The country has been under a continuous state of emergency since the assassination of Mubarak’s predecessor, Anwar Sadat, [...]

21Apr2011 | Nouh El Harmouzi | 2 comments | Continued

Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution

Profound economic changes took place in Great Britain in the century after 1750. This was the age of the Industrial Revolution, complete with a cascade of technical innovations, a vast increase in production, a renaissance of world trade, and rapid growth of urban populations. Where historians and other observers clash is in the interpretation of [...]

23Oct2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | Continued

Remembering Julian Simon

Paul A. Cleveland is a professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama. Erin Hagert is studying economics at The King’s College in New York. The late Julian Simon was not a household name, but he left an indelible mark nonetheless by demanding that environmentalists produce evidence for their doomsday predictions. Meanwhile, he produced his [...]

1Jan2007 | and and Paul A. Cleveland | 1 comment | Continued

Oblivious to the Obvious

“Ironically, the birth of a child is registered as a reduction in national income per head, while the birth of a farm animal shows up as an improvement.” -Peter Bauer (1991) Each passing year makes me more and more aware of human beings’ astounding capacity for overlooking the obvious. I have in mind here not [...]

1Nov2003 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | Continued

Water Markets Are the Answer

The rains spun off by Hurricane Lili and Tropical Storm Isidore brought welcome relief from drought for much of the Southeast. But the respite may be temporary. While the drought may end, the southeast’s water problems have just begun. The population of the United States as a whole grew 13.1 percent in the 1990s. But [...]

1Mar2003 | Charles Oliver | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan St. Martin’s Press • 2002 • 308 pages • $25.95 Reviewed by Daniel T. Griswold Give Pat Buchanan his due: The man can write. In his latest book, The Death of the West, he unleashes [...]

29Jan2003 | Daniel Griswold | 0 comments | Continued

The Inhumanity of Population Control

Once again the Bush administration has come under fire for a decision that runs counter to conventional wisdom. Undeterred by widespread denunciations after opposing the Kyoto Protocol, it announced that funds appropriated by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would be cut back. With all the hue and cry about the dangers of [...]

1Aug2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | Continued

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

Reviewed by Robert Lawson Julian Simon’s final work before his untimely death is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. He wants to explain why at least some parts of humanity, after millennia of virtual stagnation, suddenly began a rapid increase in living standards around the years 1750-1800. Simon labels this phenomenon Sudden Modern Progress (SMP). His [...]

1Jul2002 | Julian L. Simon edited by Tim | 1 comment | Continued

Ten Years After the Bet: The More Things Change. . .

Michael Mallinger is a research associate at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The late Julian Simon’s victory in his famous bet with Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich was a defining moment in the free-market movement’s victory over Malthusianism. In 1980 Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose five commodities that would become more expensive over the [...]

1Nov2001 | Michael D. Mallinger | 0 comments | Continued

P. T. Bauer’s Market-Liberal Vision

Today it is not unusual to hear it suggested that the undeveloped world’s best hope lies in private property, the market economy, and the rule of law. But a short time ago, that suggestion would have scandalized many audiences. Peter Bauer is a major reason for that shift. Lord Bauer, the son of a Budapest [...]

1Oct2000 | James A. Dorn | 0 comments | Continued

Material Progress Over the Past Millennium

E. Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and the author of Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity and several other books applying Christian theology and ethics to political economy. An earlier version of this article appeared in World magazine. Reginald [...]

1Nov1999 | E. Calvin Beisner | 0 comments | Continued

Billions for a Misconception

The children of David Packard, the late Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, have a monumental job on their hands. Since their father’s death in 1996, they have been charged with fulfilling his most passionate desire: to spend billions of the family foundation’s dollars on behalf of world population control. If Mr. Packard [...]

1Jul1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

Our 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 | Continued

The 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

The Vatican and the Free Market

Dr. Goodman is president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a research institute founded in 1983 and internationally known for its studies on public policy issues. The NCPA is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. An unusual event took place in Rome earlier this year. A group of pro-free enterprise intellectuals assembled at the Vatican to [...]

1Oct1996 | John C. Goodman | 0 comments | Continued

Prosperity Without Pollution

Mr. Semmens is an economist with Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. I recently had the opportunity to participate in a World Future Society “debate” on whether we could reduce pollution without also reducing our economic well-being. Mainstream thinking asserts that we must sacrifice at least some of our prosperity in order to protect the environment. [...]

1Mar1996 | John Semmens | 2 comments | Continued
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