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"The Bet uses a legendary wager between the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich and the conservative University of Illinois economist Julian Simon to examine the roots of modern environmentalism and its relationship to broader political conflicts in the nation. Ehrlich, author of the landmark 1968...
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In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted...
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Der als Wirtschaftsjournalist ausgezeichnete und für SPIEGEL ONLINE als Wissenschaftsredakteur tätige Autor legt hier ein hochaktuelles Buch zu den Chancen und Risiken der Region um den Nordpol vor. Die rechtlich-politischen, ökonomischen und ökologischen Veränderungen im Gebiet des...
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analysis," including the property-rights basis of environmental problems, efficient pollution control, benefit …-based approach to controlling pollution, the economic critique of growth, the potential for government failure, the promotion of …
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