Bøger af Julian L. Simon

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

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 and applied fields, illustrating the use of each method in its appropriate context.

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 we ought to be in. The author advocates his Self-Comparison Analysis for overcoming depression.

In his long and distinguished career as a writer and scholar Julian Simon came to be known as one of the leading--and most controversial--authorities on population economics