Julian Simon of Aprilia claimed pole position in the 125cc category with a fastest lap of one minute 48.237 seconds.
In qualifying for the 125cc race, Bradley Smith came second behind championship leader Julian Simon, with Marc Marquez in third place.
Or was the better bet to believe University of Illinois' Julian Simon, who said prices for oil and other commodities would drop?
The bet between Julian Simon, the economist, and Paul Ehrlich, the environmentalist.
The 18-year-old from Oxford started from pole and held off the challenge of Spain's Nicolas Terol, with previous championship leader Julian Simon third.
Taking a cue from the late, great economist Julian Simon, Caplan disposes of the myth that having more children stresses the natural environment.
FORBES: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Love My Kids
To Julian Simon, the key to avoiding catastrophe and improving living standards was freeing people from the shackles of excessive government and from anti-individualistic cultures.
Julian Simon -- entrepreneur, economist, professor -- brilliantly undermined the we're-running-out-of-resources hysteria that severely hobbled the American economy from the late 1960s through the 1970s.
Meanwhile, both the 250cc and 125cc titles could be decided this weekend, with Hiroshi Aoyama and Julian Simon poised to celebrate in their respective classes.
Elias had been instructed to ride a conservative race and focus on championship points but he produced a risky charge at the front of the pack to hold off Spanish compatriot Julian Simon for the win.
There used to be clearly defined battle lines between pessimists like Mr Ehrlich and optimists like Julian Simon (an economist who bet Mr Ehrlich that the inflation-adjusted price of a basket of commodities would not rise over time because of growing populations).
As the late, great economist Julian Simon demonstrated (both with clear economic logic and an unassailable mountain of data), there is a long-run tendency for standards of living to improve and for material scarcity to relax as a constraint rather than tighten.
FORBES: You Worry. You Shouldn't. Part 1: Overpopulation and Resource Exhaustion
Demographic causes and consequences of the industrial revolution, by Julian L. Simon, in The Journal of European Economic History, spring 1994.
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