The ecologist
Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University claimed that the price of minerals
would go up because of shortages, and the economist Julian Simon of
Princeton University offered to sell him $200 1990 futures on five
minerals of Ehrlich's choice. In 1990 Ehrlich had to pay Simon almost
$600, because the prices had gone down.
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