Sir I read GOOD MOOD by Prof. Julian Simon in 2019 before the pandemic. I found out about it on your blog on Building the Beautiful Bubble. It helped me greatly to abet my depressive tendencies too. I have been reasonably free of depression since, even in quite distressing situations. In fact, your own blog has helped me greatly to manage myself better. I simply can't be thankful enough as a person with lived experience of being labelled as mentally ill. Your blog, interviews and presentations have helped me to manage myself better, more than I can express in words. I will write to you some day detailing all the various ways in which I have benefited from following your work and also of all other GMU Econ faculty members.
I can identify with portions of Simon's life, having suffered from depression myself. I was unfamiliar with his work until you brought it to my attention here; this inspired me to at least read his Wikipedia page. How apt to write about his work, given the name of your blog! Although I wasn't aware of Simon's life, I am certainly familiar with Paul Ehrlich's environmental hysteria, and I was delighted to read about Simon's bet with Ehrlich.
Being a huge fan of Julian Simon and a fellow sufferer from depression, I read Good Mood in 1994. (Two month later I read a complementary book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. David D. Burn. I recommend both.) I never met Simon in person but did talk with him on the phone and he let me publish one of his essays in my Extropy magazine.
I absolutely agree with you that he deserved a Nobel Prize.
Sir I read GOOD MOOD by Prof. Julian Simon in 2019 before the pandemic. I found out about it on your blog on Building the Beautiful Bubble. It helped me greatly to abet my depressive tendencies too. I have been reasonably free of depression since, even in quite distressing situations. In fact, your own blog has helped me greatly to manage myself better. I simply can't be thankful enough as a person with lived experience of being labelled as mentally ill. Your blog, interviews and presentations have helped me to manage myself better, more than I can express in words. I will write to you some day detailing all the various ways in which I have benefited from following your work and also of all other GMU Econ faculty members.
I can identify with portions of Simon's life, having suffered from depression myself. I was unfamiliar with his work until you brought it to my attention here; this inspired me to at least read his Wikipedia page. How apt to write about his work, given the name of your blog! Although I wasn't aware of Simon's life, I am certainly familiar with Paul Ehrlich's environmental hysteria, and I was delighted to read about Simon's bet with Ehrlich.
Being a huge fan of Julian Simon and a fellow sufferer from depression, I read Good Mood in 1994. (Two month later I read a complementary book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. David D. Burn. I recommend both.) I never met Simon in person but did talk with him on the phone and he let me publish one of his essays in my Extropy magazine.
I absolutely agree with you that he deserved a Nobel Prize.