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Human ingenuity

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Inequality

Despite the Doomsday Narrative, Global Inequality Has Significantly Declined

This progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.

Veronique de Rugy | 9.14.2023 9:15 AM

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Coronavirus

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Is 90% Effective

And there looks to be more good vaccine news coming.

Ronald Bailey | 11.9.2020 12:05 PM

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History

COVID-19 and the Collapse of Complex Societies

Stephen Davies | 6.2.2020 6:00 AM

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Earth day

Earth Day Turns 50

Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and one who got it right

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2020 6:00 AM

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Julian Simon

Simon Abundance Index Launch on Monday at the Cato Institute

Mark the 49th anniversary of Earth Day by celebrating human ingenuity.

Ronald Bailey | 4.19.2019 4:20 PM

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Julian Simon

Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980

New Simon Abundance Index elegantly refutes primitive zero-sum intuitions with respect to population and resource availability trends.

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2018 12:40 PM

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Ideas

Against Capitalism

The word is a Marxist coinage.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | 12.21.2017 6:00 AM

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