We discovered in our research. The idea of superabundance occurred to us when we were looking at this original bed between julian simon and paul ehrlich in the 1980s. Paul ehrlich had written this book that painted this dystopian future that things were going to crash and england would not exist and we were going to starve. And economists picked up the book and read it. They said initially, this looks like it makes sense. But maybe i should look at what the data says about resources. How abundant the resources are. As economists, we look at the price of resources. You know, if something is money now it should be getting more expensive. What julian simon found is that the price of these things was not going up. They were going down. So how can you have something becoming more scarce that was becoming cheaper . So, he begins to research other things. He starts looking at nonrenewable metals like copper. Then he extended it to these other resources. What he observed is this population inc
The idea of superabundance occurred to us when we were looking at this original bed between julian simon and paul ehrlich in the 1980s. Paul ehrlich had written this book that painted this dystopian future that things were going to crash and england would not exist and we were going to starve. And economists picked up the book and read it. They said initially, this looks like it makes sense. But maybe i should look at what the data says about resources. How abundant the resources are. As economists, we look at the price of resources. You know, if something is money now it should be getting more expensive. What julian simon found is that the price of these things was not going up. They were going down. So how can you have something becoming more scarce that was becoming cheaper . So, he begins to research other things. He starts looking at nonrenewable metals like copper. Then he extended it to these other resources. What he observed is this population increase. These prices, these reso
By the coauthor of this book called superabundance the story of population growth, innovation, and Human Flourishing on an infinitely bountiful planet. Professor fully, what do you mean when you talk about superabundance . Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about what we discovered in our research. The idea of superabundance occurred to us when we were looking at this original bed between julian simon and paul ehrlich in the 1980s. Paul ehrlich had written this book that painted this dystopian future that things were going to crash and england would not exist and we were going to starve. And economists picked up the book and read it. They said initially, this looks like it makes sense. But maybe i should look at what the data says about resources. How abundant the resources are. As economists, we look at the price of resources. You know, if something is money now it should be getting more expensive. What julian simon found is that the price of these things was not going up
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