Superabundancia

Several generations have been taught that rapid population growth corresponds to an alarming consumption of the planet's natural resources, which makes them scarce. Superabundance dismantles this traditional belief and teaches that it is quite the opposite. After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services over two centuries, professors Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. The authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than population, a relationship they call "superabundance". The book makes the case that each additional human being created, on average, more value than it consumed. This is possible because more people produce more ideas, which leads to more innovations. At the end of the process of discovery and selection in the market, those inventions survive that allow us to overcome scarcity, stimulate economic growth and raise the standard of living. In order to innovate and feed the cycle of glut, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade and make profits. Therefore, this essay, disconcerting and optimistic, but not naive, is above all a defense of freedom.