
Gale L. Pooley is an associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. He has taught economics and statistics at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Boise State University, and the College of Idaho.
Dr. Pooley earned his BBA in Economics at Boise State University. He did graduate work at Montana State University and completed his PhD at the University of Idaho. His dissertation topic was on the Knowledge Acquisition Preferences of the CEOs of the Inc. 500.
In 1986 he founded Analytix Group, a real estate valuation and consulting firm. The Analytix Group has performed over 5,000 appraisals in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Dr. Pooley has held professional designations from the Appraisal Institute, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and the CCIM Institute.
He has published articles in National Review, HumanProgress, The American Spectator, FEE, the Utah Bar Journal, the Appraisal Journal, Quillette, and RealClearMarkets.
Dr. Pooley is a Fellow with the Discovery Institute and serves on the board of HumanProgress.org. He also serves on the Foundation for Economic Education Faculty Network and is a Scholar with Hawaii's Grassroot Institute. He is also a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He has presented at FreedomFest and the COSM Technology conference.
His major research activity has been the Simon Abundance Index, which he co-authored with Dr. Marian Tupy.
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For The Time It Took To Get One Mile In 1980, You Get 2.29 Today.

Desalinating Water Is Becoming “Absurdly Cheap,” Elon Musk schools Bill Maher

More Light Innovation

From 1979 to 2019 Finished Goods Became 761 Percent More Abundant for Upskilling Workers

Dr. Gale L. Pooley on the Ideology of Scarcity and the Potential to Achieve “Super Abundance”

After 96 Years, TV Abundance Continues to Flourish
What Philo T. Farnsworth invented in 1927 has become one of our most beloved products with billions sold.
Gale Pooley on “A Book with Legs” Podcast

Healing Peter’s Pessimism
Take Elon Musk’s advice and “look at the numbers”
Superabundance
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
A Tale of Two Curves: Physical Life vs. Economic Life

Superabundance in the Washington Times
A relentless advance toward superabundance
Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy Discuss Superabundance with Jordan Peterson

Superabundance Day

The Greatest Inequality in America
The rich are 58 times richer than the poor.
Refrigerator Abundance
For the time to earn the money to buy one refrigerator in 1956, you get over 13 today. While U.S. population doubled in the last 66 years it takes 85 percent less time to give everyone a refrigerator.
Are We Running Out?
From 1980 to 2020, every one percent increase in population corresponded to a four percent increase in personal resource abundance and an eight percent increase in global resource abundance.
Elon Musk’s Learning Curves
Can he do for electricity what he's done for rockets and cars?
Work Less, Earn More, Live Longer
From 1856 to 1981 men in the U.K. got 174,720 more hours to enjoy life while incomes rose 383 percent.