Book · 1981 · Economic policy
The ultimate resource
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I want to close with a tribute to Julian Simon. Yeah. Julian Simon's book, The Ultimate Resource, which I recommend to listeners, we haven't talked much about that over the years on this show, but you point out in a recent paper that in 1960, South Korea had a little over a million births.
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So this was also the argument to connect this back to the idea of human population so this this was the argument for this guy Julian Simon who I admire a lot yeah um who who wrote this book called The Ultimate resource.
Marc Andreessen The Ben & Marc Show · Oct 2023 Why people recommend it
The ultimate resource by Julian Lincoln Simon is a foundational book exploring the relationship between human population growth, economic abundance, and technological progress. On EconTalk, host Russ Roberts closed an episode with a tribute to Julian Simon, explicitly recommending the book to his listeners while discussing historical birth rates and human creativity. Similarly, Marc Andreessen referenced the work on The Ben & Marc Show to support his techno-optimist arguments. Andreessen highlighted Simon's theories to explain why growing human populations serve as the ultimate driver for innovation and resource abundance, rather than leading to scarcity as pessimists often claimed. Both podcast appearances emphasized the enduring relevance of Simon's economic and demographic insights, bringing his optimistic perspective on human ingenuity to contemporary debates about the future.
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Russ Roberts I want to close with a tribute to Julian Simon. Yeah. Julian Simon's book, The Ultimate Resource, which I r… 1
“I want to close with a tribute to Julian Simon. Yeah. Julian Simon's book, The Ultimate Resource, which I recommend to listeners, we haven't talked much about that over the years on this show, but you point out in a recent paper that in 1960, South Korea had a little over a million births.”
Marc Andreessen so this was also the argument to connect this back to the idea of human population so this this was the a… 1
“so this was also the argument to connect this back to the idea of human population so this this was the argument for this guy Julian Simon who I admire a lot yeah um who who wrote this book called The Ultimate resource”
