Thanks to global expansion of reproductive freedom, actual population growth is likely to be less and peak around the middle this century
America desperately needs more immigrants to support its economy.
Whether red vs. blue or city vs. country, political tensions are best addressed by letting people run their own lives.
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
Skyrocketing debt and pension obligations make for a tough labor environment.
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
There's an easy way to make more Americans: immigration.
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Fortunately, even if conditions don't improve, economic freedom (and consequently growth) benefits not only the people who have it, but also people who don't.
For people, unlike rats, the human 'behavioral sink' seems to be greater creativity, not pathological collapse.
Population density portends greater creativity, not collapse
Take Hans Rosling's Test Your World Knowledge quiz and find out
Malthusianism might make a good movie plot, but it is just fiction.
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
Malthusians are never right and never win.
National Review is the sole link to respectability for neo-Malthusian, ultra-restrictionist outfits that enviros are shunning.
Illinois' sources of revenues are leaving as government employees keep demanding more, more, more.
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.
Rationally optimistic.
Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning
Library Journal reviews my new book, published today.
And still just as wrong
Global life expectancy up more than six years too.
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
Urbanization, forest, and agricultural trends point in a more hopeful direction
Only a net loss of 45,000 residents in 2012
Grew 2.26 million in the twelve months ending July 31, according to the Census Bureau
Changes in one-child rule happening too incrementally to result in increase, experts say
Says they create more businesses and are more "fertile"
1.5 million fewer people
A review of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas.
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