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    Good Mood: New Psychology of Overcoming Depression

    Julian L. Simon

    Argues that depression results from negative self-comparisons, comparisons we all make continually between the state we think we are in and a hypothetical benchmark state - the state we believe…

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    The economics of population: Key Modern Writings

    This comprehensive two volume set includes the most important articles and papers on the subject written since World War II. The main emphasis is on the effects of demographic change…

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    The State of Humanity

    This book provides a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the state of the Earth and its inhabitants at the close of the twentieth century. More than fifty scholars from all…

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    A Life against the Grain: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Economist

    Julian L. Simon

    The autobiography of economist Julian L. Simon, who believed that human intellect and ingenuity are ever-renewable resources in the use and preservation of natural resources. It takes the reader through…

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    The Art of Empirical Investigation

    Julian L. Simon

    A textbook on the basics of social-scientific research. It discusses all the important empirical methods used in social science, and its examples are drawn from a wide variety of academic…

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    Hoodwinking the Nation

    Julian L. Simon

    Most people in the United States believe that our envi- ronment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth in the world is a burden…

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    The Ultimate Resource

    Julian L. Simon

    Presents a concise theory for the observed trends: population growth and increased income put pressure on supplies of resources. This book tackles issues such as the supposed rate of species…

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    Scarcity or Abundance?: A Debate on the Environment

    Norman Myers,Julian L Simon (University of Maryland)

    Is the world at an historical threshold, where we risk dooming ourselves and our planet if we don’t change the way we exploit the earth’s resources? Or are environmentalists being…

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    Hoodwinking the Nation

    Julian L. Simon,Julian Lincoln Simon

    Most people in the United States believe that our environment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth is a burden and a threat

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    The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

    Julian L. Simon,Timur Kuran

    Illuminates and explains the emergence of modern economic development in Western Europe after the seventeenth century

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    It’s Getting Better All the Time: 101 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years

    Stephen Moore,Julian L Simon

    There has been more material progress in the United States in the 20th Century than in the entire world in all previous centuries combined.

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    The Art of Empirical Investigation

    Julian L. Simon,James E. Katz

    Julian Simon was known for his methodical, and often controversial, writings challenging conventional beliefs about overpopulation, pollution, disappearing farmland, and the scarcity of energy sources and raw materials

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    The Economic Consequences of Immigration

    Julian L. Simon

    Argues convincingly that immigration continues to benefit U.S. natives as well as most developed countries

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    Plough Quarterly No. 40 - The Good of Tech

    Simon Oliver, Sara Novic, Matthew Loftus, Arlie Coles, David Schaengold, Hannah Arendt, J L Wall, Alastair Roberts, Julian Peters

    How can we live well with tech, without it becoming our master?

    These days, the heady promises of Silicon Valley seem suspect: the internet didn't bring all of humanity together…

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    The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book

    Julian M. Barker,Simon J. Mills,Simon L. Maguire,Abdul Ghaaliq Lalkhen,Brendan A. McGrath

    The second edition of The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book provides over 120 short and long case questions and answers based on those given at recent Final FRCA vivas. An introductory…

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