Bankers and Skin in the Game? Taleb continued And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ezra Pound and Lord Byron? https://t.co/bnOBlWQr5G via @rld_real_CPR — RealRLD (@rld_real_CPR) November 24, 2020 Energy Economics, Energy, Statistical Turn in Physics, Atomism, Reductionism, Club of Rome. Claes Johnson, Steinmetz, IronSide, Maxwell. Electronic Universe, Alfven, Hoyle, Wolfram Computation, Applied Maths. Idiotic Climate Change Communicators …
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Simon–Ehrlich wager From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between business professor Julian L. Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990. The widely-followed contest originated in the pages of Social Science Quarterly, where Simon challenged …
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#TheExergist Exergy In thermodynamics, the exergy of a system is the maximum useful work possible during a process that brings the system into equilibrium with a heat reservoir, reaching maximum entropy.[1] When the surroundings are the reservoir, exergy is the potential of a system to cause a change as it achieves equilibrium with its environment. Exergy is the energy that is available to be used. After the system and surroundings reach equilibrium, the …
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Statue of Theophrastus, Palermo Botanical Garden The Oligarchical temper, Theophrastus The Oligarchical temper would seem to consist in a love of authority, covetous, not of gain, but of power. The Oligarch is one who, when the people are deliberating whom they shall associate with the archon as joint directors of the procession, will come forward …
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This is part of the Sustainable development Goals , FInance and the Built environment series . Focusing on the emerging residential mortgage market with particular emphasis on the Volume budget homes and First time Markets of the UK. In Part 2 In part 2, we looked at Mark Carney’s new role as set out in …
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