Julian Simon was the optimist's optimist. His belief in better
things to come was directly tied to his faith in the creativity and
problem solving capacity of us humans. Yesterday would have
been his 80th birthday. The blog at Bleeding Heart
Libertarians asks us to remember his message - here.
Excerpt here:
"What he demonstrated is that freedom is the precondition for human progress, and that this progress uplifted not just those at the top but particularly the least well off among us. It also shows that the increasing wealth of the Western world has not, and need not, come at the expense of the poorer parts of the world. Economic growth is a positive sum game and leads not to an increasing scarcity of resources and more difficulty in improving the lot of humanity, but to a world of abundance and longer, better, lives for all."
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