Julian l simon biography definition
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Simon, Julian
An economist who brought reams of evidence to bära against the conventional wisdom about the dangers of population growth and resource consumption, Julian Lincoln Simon (1932–1998) was born in Newark, New Jersey, on February 12; he attended Harvard University. After service in the Navy and work in advertising, Simon earned an MBA in 1959 and a Ph.D. in business economics in 1961, both from the University of Chicago. Although initially adopting the conventional Malthusian view that rapid population growth was a primary obstacle to economic prosperity in both the developed and developing worlds, his own research soon convinced him otherwise. Instead, science and technology, products of inexhaustible human ingenuity, have improved human welfare in nearly every measurable way and will continue to do so indefinitely into the future. He served as professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and distinguished senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Insti
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Married, three children
Born February 12, 1932
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Education
- B.A., Harvard, experimental psychology, 1953
- Approximately four graduate courses in experimental psychology, Harvard, 1953
- M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1959
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, business economics, 1961
Professional History
| 1983 - Present | Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 1983, Fall | Visiting Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC |
| 1974-1975 | Visiting Professor of Business ledning, Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| 1970-1971 | Visiting Professor of Business Administration and of Demography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. |
| 1969-1983 | Professor of Economics and of Business ledning, University of Illinois |
| 1968, Spring | Visiting Senior Lecturer in Business, Hebrew Univ • Simon, Julian L.(1932–1998) During most of the last quarter of the twentieth century Julian Simon was the best-known population economist in the world. Simon graduated from Harvard in 1953 with a degree in experimental psychology. His career began in the U.S. Navy, where, as he would later recount, he learned to distrust authority and the conventional wisdom it represented. Switching to business, he completed a master's of business administration degree at the University of Chicago in 1959 and a doctorate in business economics at the same institution in 1961. For the last 15 years of his life he was a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland. Simon's intellectual output was enormous and diverse. His early work was in the economics of advertising and included a best-selling trade paperback, How to Start and Operate a Mail Order Business (1965). In a single year (1993) he proposed both a radical new approach to the teaching of statistics and a method |