Gale L. Pooley

Gale L. Pooley is an economist, professor, author, and international speaker. He has taught at Utah Tech University, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Boise State University, and the College of Idaho. He teaches The Economics of Human Flourishing course at the Peterson Academy with Dr. Marian Tupy. He earned his BBA in Economics at Boise State University, did graduate work at Montana State University, and obtained his PhD at the University of Idaho. He’s traveled to 35 counties and also earned the MAI, SRA, FRICS and CCIM professional designations. Dr. Pooley is a Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a board member of Human Progress and a scholar at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. He is the co-author with Dr. Marian Tupy of the Simon Abundance Index, which uses the “time prices” of 50 basic commodities to estimate the relationship between global population growth and resource abundance. Together, they developed the Pooley-Tupy theorem, quantifying the growth in knowledge resources over time at individual and population levels.