Posted in Economics on Jul 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Ever since Tom Evslin posted his comments Energy Vision, I have not been able to focus on anything else. Thoughts and questions have been buzzing about inside my head, exasperated further by my two-hour daily commute.
Here are the basic numbers on our oil:
The world consumes 84.5 million barrels of oil per day (Mb/day)
The United States […]
Posted in Books, Economics on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I had the opportunity to read Jerry Z. Muller’s The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought (Knopf: 2002). I highly recommend it. Muller gives a great overview of key philosophers and their impact on capitalism. I took away a key conclusion: The essence of capitalism and its success does not change because […]
Posted in Economics on Apr 19th, 2007 No Comments »
What is the economic theory of shared infrastructure? Surely someone has addressed the theory, but I cannot find it. This particular economic theory will have a far more significant impact on the 21st Century economies that it did in the pass. Thus, I am very eager to find it and study it. Where is it?