
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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Elon Musk Gets an A in Econ. Janet Yellen Gets a D-
63 million more Americans would increase GDP per capita by $20,000 and GDP by $12 trillion.
Elon Musk Gets an A in Econ. Janet Yellen Gets a D-
63 million more Americans would increase GDP per capita by $20,000 and GDP by $12 trillion.
Even With Historic High Gasoline Prices, You Get 62 Percent More Miles for the Same Time it Took in 1980.
The Time Price of Gasoline per Mile has decreased by 38 percent.
Visualizing Global Resource Abundance

Knowledge vs Doom

Nailing Innovation
Nail productivity has increased by 349,900 percent, in the last 250 years.
Cornpreneurs Save Us From Davos Elites
Since 1936 U.S. population increased by 157.8 percent while corn yields increased by 573.1 percent.
You get 22 bicycles today for the time price of one in 1910.
We have 345 percent more people on the planet today than 1910, but we are enjoying 9,725 percent more global bicycle abundance.
Visualizing Christmas Abundance
The time price of an LG 65" OLED TV has fallen over 75 percent in five years.
Kitchen Appliance Abundance
Comparing time prices in the 1980 Sears catalog to Walmart in 2020 indicates a 729 percent increase in abundance.
The Reason We Are So Rich Is That There Are So Many of Us
Larger markets allow fixed costs to approach zero in total cost per unit.
U.S. Housing Became Much More Affordable Over The Last 40 Years

Gale Pooley Discusses The Simon Abundance Index on The Human Progress Podcast

The Changing Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner
It's not as bad as you might think.
Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On

Does More People Equal More Abundance? The Myth of Economic Scarcity

Discovery Research Fellow Gale Pooley: Are We Doomed to Run Out of Resources?
