Saturday, April 2, 2011

Today's Theme - Limits to Economic growth

I don't pretend to understand all of this but ...

Here is a research paper that treats energy limits on organism growth as an analogy to energy limits on economic growth. The parallels are enlightening. http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/resources/Davidson.pdf

Here's an article on "Tainters Law." His thesis is that social structures generate negative returns when they become too complex. http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/03/31/tainters-law-where-is-the-physics/

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