{"id":281537,"date":"2023-10-02T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281537"},"modified":"2023-10-02T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:30:04","slug":"julian-simon-memorial-award-2023-comments-of-david-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281537","title":{"rendered":"Julian Simon Memorial Award 2023: Comments of David Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a0From \u00a0Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By David Simon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This past February marked 25 years since my father\u2019s death.  In 2001, CEI began awarding the Julian Simon Memorial Award<\/a>. My family deeply appreciates not only that CEI established this award, but also that CEI now has continued this award for 23 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first award went to my father\u2019s long-time collaborator, Stephen Moore. Steve, by the way, now leads the Committee to Unleash Prosperity<\/a>. I hope you all subscribe to the Committee\u2019s excellent and free Hotline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s award recipients, Marian Tupy<\/a> and Gale Pooley<\/a>, began working together a few years ago on a very ambitious project that last year reached an apex with the publication of their book, Superabundance<\/a><\/em>. My father would have loved this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About two months after my father died, Milton Friedman wrote an Appreciation for the paperback version of my father\u2019s book, The Ultimate Resource 2<\/em>.  It starts with the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julian Simon\u2019s untimely death has deprived us of our most effective tilter at environmental myths. This book will unfortunately be his final blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what a blast it is. Julian\u2019s command of economic analysis, his dedication to understanding at a deep level the phenomena he discusses, and his incredible persistence in unearthing evidence of those phenomena has produced a book that is at once a stirring manifesto and an encyclopedic source of information on every aspect of the popular environmental movement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Friedman\u2019s description of my father\u2019s book also describes Superabundance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another of my father\u2019s books shows in a different way why my father would have greatly appreciated Superabundance<\/em>. He dedicated The Economic Consequences of Immigration<\/a><\/em> to the three economists that he most admired:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To the memory of Simon Kuznets \u2026 And Friedrich Hayek \u2026 And also for Milton Friedman \u2026 Their younger colleague.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Kuznets did some of the most important early work on the economics of population growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is most famous, however, for making the economics profession\u2019s greatest contributions to econometrics \u2013 by developing national income measurements, like Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superabundance<\/em> confirms my father\u2019s findings regarding population growth, builds upon them, and again shows that \u2013 contrary to continual doomsday claims \u2013 population growth increases the supply of resources, reduces their cost, and increases prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superabundance<\/em> also makes important contributions to econometrics: the Simon Abundance Index; time prices; time price multipliers; and price elasticities of population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayek\u2019s work emphasizes the failure \u2013 and danger \u2013 of central economic planning \u2013 and the critical role of markets and spontaneous order in the evolution of economies and societies. Superabundance<\/em> also emphasizes these points, particularly the horrendous failure of government population planning. Think of China\u2019s only recently ended barbaric one-child policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friedman\u2019s work elevates empirical evidence and analysis over theory and makes the case for the importance of freedom in the creation of prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superabundance<\/em> broadly and deeply surveys economic theory, but its findings regarding population growth are products of powerful empirical evidence and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its empirical findings include the importance of combining freedom with population growth to maximize economic benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest and most important point is that Superabundance<\/em> powerfully continues vindicating my father\u2019s explanation of the central mechanism of human progress: People are \u201cthe ultimate resource.\u201d A growing population, particularly with greater freedom, has \u2013 and will continue to \u2013 overcome every challenge and will, in virtually every measurable way, continue to enjoy greater prosperity. This makes Superabundance<\/em> especially important right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President of the United States is hellbent on doing everything he can to destroy this nation. Among other things, he is using quasi-religious, Chicken Little policies against what the data show to be beneficial<\/strong> trends of a warming planet and increased CO2<\/sub> emissions that have been saving millions of lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this point, I hope all of you will read the article in National Review<\/em> that I co-authored with John Fund in August about Biden\u2019s fraudulent climate emergency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all of this in mind, I say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marian and Gale: Thank you for this great book! Kent and CEI: Thank you for honoring them for this book! And to all of you: Thank you for supporting CEI!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David M. Simon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a lawyer in Chicago. His father, the economist Julian L. Simon, did path-breaking work concerning the economics of population growth, immigration, natural resources, and the environment, and developed the market-based solution used by airlines to voluntarily resolve overbooking. With his father, Mr. Simon co-authored articles concerning the economics of state liquor distribution systems and the effects of state regulations on liquor prices. Mr. Simon is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and an honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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