superabundance

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George Gilder and Gale Pooley
April 17, 2025
Economics
6

We Should Measure Prices in Time

George Gilder and Gale Pooley
April 17, 2025
Economics
6
How can the laws of enterprise and business consulting diverge so significantly from the accepted wisdom of economic analysis and political rhetoric? More baffling, how is it that products are becoming simultaneously more expensive and more affordable? This paradox is possible because while we buy things with money, we actually pay for them with our time—not in dollars and cents but in hours and minutes of work. Read More ›
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Gale Pooley
March 11, 2025
Economics
4

Cruise Ship Billionaires

Gale Pooley
March 11, 2025
Economics
4
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Gale Pooley
July 17, 2024
Economics
1

Entrepreneurs Create Abundance. Bureaucrats Create Scarcity.

Gale Pooley
July 17, 2024
Economics
1
Mark Perry does a great chart that illustrates the relative changes in the nominal prices of a variety of products and services. What is the difference between growing abundance and growing scarcity? In a word, government. Read More ›
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Gale Pooley
May 10, 2024
Economics
2

Strawberries In The U.S. Grew 2,755 Percent More Abundant Since 1960

Gale Pooley
May 10, 2024
Economics
2
Researchers at UC Davis have documented the tremendous growth in yields for strawberries in California. Genetic gains from breeding and production advances increased yields by 2,755 percent from the early 1960s. The strawberry joins wheat, rice, and other staple crops of the Green Revolution. Read More ›
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Gale Pooley
March 20, 2024
Economics
2

The Good Old Days Were Really Expensive

Gale Pooley
March 20, 2024
Economics
2
We buy things with money but pay for them with our time. Money prices are expressed in dollars and cents, while time prices are expressed in hours and minutes. A time price is simply the money price divided by hourly income. Read More ›
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George F. Will
July 19, 2023
Economics
5

Progressive Gloom Ignores a Marvelous Historical Economic Measure

George F. Will
July 19, 2023
Economics
5
In “Life After Capitalism,” George Gilder, citing Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley in the Cato Institute’s volume “Superabundance,” writes that “between 1980 and 2022, workers have been able to buy some 300 percent more goods and services with their hours and minutes.” The secret sauce is applied knowledge. Read More ›
Marian Tupy PragerU
Center on Wealth & Poverty
January 30, 2023
Economics
1

Superabundance on PragerU

Center on Wealth & Poverty
January 30, 2023
Economics
1
There are now eight billion people living on the planet. Is there enough room for all of us? Are we going to run out of food and other resources? Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Gale Pooley's co-author Marian Tupy, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses their new book Superabundance and examines whether or not these fears are valid. His answer may surprise you. Read More ›