time price

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^{George Gilder and Gale Pooley
April 17, 2025
Economics

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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 ›

^{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 ›

^{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

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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 ›

^{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 ›

^{By Editorial Board - The Washington Times
September 24, 2022
Economics

3}

Superabundance in the Washington Times

_{By Editorial Board - The Washington Times
September 24, 2022
Economics

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Escaping grinding deprivation has been the aspiration of humanity since the dawn of time. Now that many of the planet’s peoples are blessed with sufficient means of survival — and some with plenty — a trendy narrative threatens to turn the dream into a nightmare. Read More ›

^{Frederick Hess
September 16, 2022
Economics

4}

Forbes: Teach the Truth and Superabundance

_{Frederick Hess
September 16, 2022
Economics

4}

In Superabundance, economists Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy show just how extraordinarily better off Americans are today than we were even a few decades ago—and how remarkably our well-being has improved over time. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
August 4, 2022
Economics

6}

Are We Running Out?

_{Gale Pooley
August 4, 2022
Economics

6}

Economics is the study of how human beings create value for one another. Value is a function of how intelligently we organize things like atoms, musical notes, words on a page, pictures on a screen, and bits in software. The quantity of things is important, but it’s the value of things that count. And value can change as fast as people can change their minds. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
February 24, 2022
Economics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology

1}

Knowledge vs Doom

_{Gale Pooley
February 24, 2022
Economics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology

1}

Countering the prevailing narrative of doom, economist Dr. Gale Pooley shows how the incredible power of learning curves has instead brought about an era of unprecedented abundance. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
June 25, 2021
Economics

4}

U.S. Housing Became Much More Affordable Over The Last 40 Years

_{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
June 25, 2021
Economics

4}

Contrary to what your late-night infomercial might be saying, real estate is not just about location, location, location. It is primarily about financing, financing, financing. Read More ›