This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics. Mathematical content is kept to a minimum, and advanced numerical concepts are placed in appendices. The two survey chapters are suitable for readers with little or no formal training in...

The threat of a major debt crisis is presently hanging over the international financial community like Damocles' sword. Behind the crisis lies the flood of petrodollars into the financial institutions of the industrial world since the mid 1970s and the consequent large-scale lending to...

The purpose of this short paper is to examine some of the controversy about the Kyoto Protocol - though under no circumstances to impugn climate warming, since these are very different phenomena. An overwhelming majority of high-level scientific opinion accepts that a serious and possibly...

The threat of a major debt crisis is presently hanging over the international financial community like Damocles' sword. Behind the crisis lies the flood of petrodollars into the financial institutions of the industrial world since the mid 1970s and the consequent large-scale lending to...

If you meet someone at a party who says that he is Napoleon, you don’t start discussing cavalry tactics at Waterloo ─ Professor Robert Solow<br><br>Well that depends, Robert. If he is the gentleman who gave the party, and you would like to receive another invitation from him some day, you might feel...