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The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)
0:37 Intro. [Recording date: September 10, 2026.] Russ Roberts: Today is September 10th, 2026, and my guest is Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, the Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Are More People Really a Problem? Evidence from the Simon Abundance Index
Are More People Really a Problem? Evidence from the Simon Abundance Index Post date: Wed, Jul 15, 2026 Category: Population growth Introduction Population growth has long been a source of debate, with concerns about its implications for economic development, food security, and the availability of natural resources influencing policymakers and economists alike.
A preview of one of the world’s greatest books: Julian Simon’s The Ultimate Resource
23rd November 2010 Here’s a preview of The Ultimate Resource (2) in Julian Simon’s own words. The entire book is available for public education here. This is an electronic version containing Simon's notes that went to the publisher.
The Greatest Century That Ever Was: 25 Miraculous Trends of the Past 100 Years
Dec 15, 1999 by Julian L. Simon and Stephen Moore Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon detail the ways in which Americans were better off at the end of the 20th century than at the end of the 19th century.
The Best Books on Technology and Optimism
Before we start talking about the books, tell me why you’ve chosen the topic of technology and optimism. Because it’s my new passion. Because I spent my youth being a pessimist about the future of the world, but then it dawned on me that things were getting better and all my friends were getting richer and I didn’t need to be a pessimist.
The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving
The 1980 Global 2000 Report to the President began bystating that “if present trends continue, the world in 2000will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically,and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live innow.” In the Introduction to The Resourceful Earth,which I edited in 1984 with the late Herman Kahn, we rewrote thatpassage, stating, “If present trends continue, the world in2000 will be less crowded (though more populated), lesspolluted, more stable...
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