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Title: Excellent perspective on the real world
Review: Julian Simon must have been a tenacious SOB. He did a famous 10 year bet with Paul Ehrlich and then tried to renew it. Ehrlich chickened out. He wrote a definitive book on the economics of immigration that suggested that immigration is really a net plus of the nation. In the last few years of his life he took on the gloom sayers and the prevaricators of false science with a vigor that any scholar should admire.This book is really a reference. It goes through a number of the apocalyptic whiner's best stories and with the care of a good economist debunks both their emotion and their data. Simon was a crusader for rigor in the fields of the social sciences. Like Ronald Coase before him, he was willing to challenge conventional beliefs and then to back his notions up with data. If you want to be armed with lots of data and clear thinking on the environmental issues of our age - you should read this book.
