"Julian Lincoln Simon" was a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland, College Park/University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute at the time of his death, after previously serving as a longtime economics and business professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Simon wrote many books and articles, mostly on Economics/economic subjects. He is best known for his work on population, natural resources, and immigration. His work covers cornucopian views on lasting economic benefits from natural resources and continuous population growth, even despite limited or finite physical resources, empowered by human ingenuity, substitutes, and History of technology/technological progress. His works are also cited by Libertarianism/libertarians against government regulation. He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

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The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...

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Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.

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