Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

Bradley is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research; an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.; and a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Bradley is also a senior research fellow of the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, among other honorary affiliations.

Bradley’s most recent book is Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (M&M Scrivener Press), which applies the capitalist worldview to corporate and energy controversies. His website Political Capitalism covers this work and two forthcoming books in his trilogy on political capitalism in the energy industry.

Bradley’s other books are: The Mirage of Oil Protection (1989); Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability (2000); Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2003); and (with Richard Fulmer) Energy: The Master Resource (2004).

Most Recent Articles by Robert L. Bradley, Jr.:

IER/AEA: A Free Market Energy Organization May 21, 2013

Institute for Energy Research, American Energy Alliance

Matt Simmons’s Failed ‘Peak Oil’ Price Wager February 14, 2011

Julian Simon rides again!

‘Hey America’: ‘Wonky’ Climate Alarmism Coming at You January 4, 2011

Big Science, Big Environment want to scare you into energy, economic retrogression, wind and solar and pagan lifestyles

Three Cheers for Holiday Lighting! December 20, 2010

Record energy consumption has been accompanied by improving air quality. The EPA reported that urban air quality is almost 60 percent better today than in 1970 in the U.S.

Here Comes Ingenuity! Offshore Drilling Will Be Better, Cleaner, Safer in the New Era August 11, 2010

Julian Simon speaks to us today: Engineering innovation

Milton Friedman on Mineral Resource Theory July 30, 2010

Remembering a giant of social thought

A Free Market Energy Vision July 17, 2010

Energy is the master resource

Harvard Business Review Article: BP as Environmental Role Model July 1, 2010

Part III on global warming as the great environmental distraction

They Loved BP and Enron: Climate Alarmism as the Great Environmental Distraction June 28, 2010

Part I: Worldwatch Institute quotations