The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future

by Paul Sabin

Book Overview

Are we headed for a world of scarce resources and environmental catastrophe, or will innovation and markets yield greater prosperity

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300198973
• ISBN13: 9780300198973
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.2"