Articles by Julian L. Simon

The articles in the following list include both published and unpublished articles that are most of those that are presently accessible in electronic form. Articles that predate word-processing have mostly not been scanned, but hopefully will gradually be done in the future; in the meantime, they are available in print as referred to on the Vita (the non-linked items).

Graphs are regrettably omitted from almost all articles as of now.

A Constant Long-Run Capital/Output Ratio is Tautologous and Meaningless

A Reply to Peter Brimelow

Aid Tied to Environment, Population Policies (Letter to Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives)

An Unreported Revolution in Population Economics

Are Mergers Beneficial or Detrimental? Evidence from Advertising Agencies

Are Mergers Beneficial or Detrimental? Evidence from Advertising Agencies (Abstract)

Betting All Human Welfare Will Improve

Bill Clinton: Truth or Species?

Bunkrapt: The Abstractions That Lead to Scares About Resources and Population Growth or Why Do Politicians Think Green?

Causality: An Improvement on Hume

Chinese Abuses of Women's and Humans' Rights

Clinton Needs the Ideas of Our Greatest Mind

Commodity Advice from Hillary Clinton

Correction to Article by Rothman and Espenshade

Demographic Causes and Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

Differential Fertility, IQ, and Equilibrium: Explained Simply

Do Well While Doing Good: Let Them In

Don't Fight for All Your Rights

Dump on Us, Baby, We Need It

Duopoly and Chaos Theory: New Directions for Research and Public Policy?

Earth Day: Spiritually Uplifting, Intellectually Debased

Economic Thought About Population Consequences: Some Reflections

Entropy and Energy Accounting: Are They Relevant Concepts?

Everything Will Get Better: I'll Bet on It

Expenditures on Immigrants, Past and Present

Expenditures on Immigrants, Past and Present (Abstract)

False Charge That Immigrants Exploit Government

Firm Size and Market Behavior: A Theory of Their Relationship

Firm Size and Market Behavior: A Theory of Their Relationship (Abstract)

First Ascertain the Scientific Facts About Population Economics

Government Health Supply Completely Through the Market

Here's an Offer You Ought to Refuse

Hotelling's Law: Is it Useful or Wasteful?

How Self-interest, False Prophets, and Ignorance Mislead Journalism on Resources, Environment and Population Growth

How to Stop Illegal Immigration

Immigrants and the Public Coffers

Immigrants from the USSR Improve Israelis' Living Standard

Immigration -- Painless Medicine for Federal Budget Sickness

Immigration Cost-Benefit, Then and Now

Indeed, Let Us Build: A Reply to Arthur Waskow

Innocent Killers of Non-White Millions

Interpersonal Allocation Continuous with Intertemporal Allocation: Binding Commitments, Pledges, and Bequests

Interpersonal Allocation Continuous with Intertemporal Allocation: Binding Commitments, Pledges, and Bequests (Abstract)

Iraq-Kuwait and Nutty Thinking About Energy

Is Population Growth a Drag on Economic Development?

Is Some Better Than None? A Coda on Three Notes and Vice Versa

Is the New Immigration Less Educated Than the Old? Educational Trends of Immigrants into the U.S.

It's Time to Organize Environmental Sound Thinkers

Larry Bird and the Black Man's Disease

Lebensraum: Paradoxically, Population Growth May Eventually End Wars

License Plate Auction Proposal (Letter to Editor, The Washington Post)

Making Sense of Immigration Arguments

Malthus Lives Forever in Washington, D.C.

More People, Greater Wealth, More Resources, Healthier Environment

Mr. Bush Goes to Rio

Now for Micro-Marketization

Population Growth is Not Bad for Humanity

Population Growth is Our Greatest Triumph

Public Ownership Versus Private Enterprise: State Liquor Distribution Systems Revisited

Racial Worry, Frustration, Built by Washington Post

Racism, Nativism, and Immigration

Re Curbs on Lifetime Faculty Posts

Reply to Review by George Borjas

Resources, Environment, and Population Growth

Ricardian Trade Theory Throws No Light on Migration

Robinson Crusoe Was Not Mainly a Resource Allocator

Should We Conserve Resources for Others' Sakes? What Kind of Resources Need Conservation?

Should We Get Rid of People, or Nurture Them?

Simpson's Paradox Comparisons of Immigrants and Natives

Tenure, and Incentives for Hiring and Productivity

The Booklet of Statistical Vices

The Case for Admitting Many More Immigrants

The Cheaper the Energy the Better

The Effects of Regulations Upon State Liquor Prices

The Future Growth in Education and Opportunity

The Impending Shortage of People, and a Device to Avert It

The Insouciant Immorality of Government

The Last Stupid Interference with Liberty

The Medal of Freedom Deserves Friedrich Hayek

The Method of Lies Versus the Method of Truth

The Politics of Population and the Cairo Conference

The Population Establishment, Corruption, and Reform

The Positive Worth of Waste: A Reply to Daniel W. Bromley

The Reserves of Extracted Resources: The Historical Data

The Statistical Flummery About Species Loss

The Theory of the Fiscal Windfall from Immigration

The Vanishing Farmland Scam is Back

Trends in the Quantities of Education: A Pictorial Essay

Article by Julian L. Simon, University of Maryland and Rebecca Boggs, Oxford University

Truth in the Balance

Untangling the Puzzle of Causality

Vatican Blunders Tragically Re Cairo Population Conference

Welfare State Effects of Immigration into Europe Through Transfer and Taxes

Why Don't State Incomes Converge? Effective Worker Pay Does Not Differ Among States

Why More HUDs Lie Ahead

William Shakespeare, Procreation, and the Economics of Development

Young, Strong, Contributing: A Reply to George Borjas

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