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).
"Hey America! Are you ready to get wonky on global warming? After a year that started with fallout from the “Climategate” e-mail release, saw the cap-and-trade bill die in Congress, and ended with a gang of Republican climate skeptics winning House and Senate seats, global warming experts are going back to basics." - Darren Samuelsohn, "Climate PR Effort Heats Up," Politico, December 31, 2010.And so we now know. "Environmentalists, scientists and lawmakers have renewed public relations efforts to put global warming plainly before Americans' eyes and also rebut opponents who say nothing is happening."
"Material insufficiency and environmental problems have their benefits, over and beyond the improvement which they invoke. They focus the attention of individuals and communities, and constitute a set of challenges which can bring out the best in people" (emphasis added). - Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2 (1996), p. 587. "We need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves." - Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2 (1996), p. 588.
Editor note: July 31th marks the 4th anniversary of Milton Friedman's death. This exchange with Robert Bradley--when Dr. Friedman was 91 years old--is testament to the mental powers of one of the greatest social thinkers of modern time. Friedman had not met Bradley but was in the habit of actively communicating with scholars until his final illness.
"Such [progressive] leadership [on climate change] may give BP Amoco better access to government-controlled oil deposits and more operating flexibility." - Kimberly O’Neill Packard and Forest Reinhardt, “What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming," Harvard Business Review, July/August 2000.
“A growing number of corporations are moving beyond denial to acceptance and action on climate change, some seeking competitive advantage by anticipating rather than responding to future policy changes.”