Global Energy Crisis

Our book this month is The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz. Ben co-founded Loudcloud, a cloud computing company launched during the technology boom of the late 1990s. Soon afterward, the dot-com crash created an ext ...  Show more

I’m seeing some scary parallels between the dot com era and today. I was part of the dot com era and there were some powerful lessons from that time. It’s tempting to say this time is different. But even if there is demonstrable customer demand and revenue, there are still some w ...  Show more

This week’s programme is a thought experiment: What would the world be like if energy became superabundant and very cheap?Energy is vital for every aspect of our society, and the energy cost of extraction, processing, manufacture and transport is priced into every product we buy. ...  Show more

This seminar focuses on the economics of energy. How does the economic way of thinking help us understand the energy market, and recent events like the California blackouts. I discuss the content of the economics of energy chapter in my forthcoming textbook, Principles of Econ ...

The rising cost of living really brought home how those big, global economic shocks can mean some pretty bad bumps for our individual finances. Probably the most obvious, immediate and, painful way that global economic events hit our household budgets is through the price of ener ...  Show more

In this episode, we discuss the needed shift to renewable energy following Lebanon's fuel crisis. Whether in households or industries, what does it take to make it happen, how sustainable is it, how affordable, and does it really work?    We will tap into this as well as the need ...  Show more