"The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap energy made available through the exploitation of fossil fuels. As a result, its viability is completely dependent upon the continuation of that...

Papers presented at the National Seminar on Energy Security in Bangladesh, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2004, and organized by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Economic Association, and Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh