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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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18 September, 2015

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Overheating

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change.
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04 May, 2021

Studies on climate ethics and future generations vol. 3

Working paper series 2021:1-10 Joe Roussos & Paul Bowman (eds) This volume comprises the third collection of working papers by researchers within the program Climate ethics and future generations.Th

Type of publication: Working papers | Roussos, Joe , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Spears, Dean , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Stefánsson, H. Orri , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Steele, Katie , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Broome, John , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Campbell, Tim , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Greaves, Hilary , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Roberts, Melinda A. , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Herlitz, Anders , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson
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