SUPERABUNDANCE

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By Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley - Foreword by George Gilder

Klappentext

This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth's resources more, not less, abundant.

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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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