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Gregor Macdonald on the future of energy, economics, and society

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 12:46 Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 12:46 Written by Eric Garland 1 Comment

For those of you who know Gregor MacDonald, you know you’re in for a treat with this podcast- a full hour of some of Gregor’s latest forecasts on energy, economics and society, insights you simply won’t get anywhere else.

For those of you who haven’t discovered Gregor yet, he is one of the top energy analysts in the world, and in our minds, one of the top analysts of anything, period.

This podcast covers sweeping ground:

  • Why we’re at peak automobiles
  • The end of cheap oil
  • Coal’s role in the development of the world economy
  • The return to human capital and small towns
  • Why waterways are the future
  • Our current period of “late phase economic decadence
  • Why PAKISTAN holds the key to the Copenhagen Protocol

Crazier still, we could have spend ANOTHER hour talking to him and still not exhausted him of insight.

Enjoy.

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Tags:  19th century, coal, Economics, Gregor Macdonald, human capital, Pakistan, peak automobiles, peak oil, small towns, waterways
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 12:46 pm and is filed under Analytical techniques, Business, business development, business models, Economic Development, Economics, Energy, finance, forecasts, Geopolitics, Globalization, government, human resources, Industry trends, leadership, markets, The Future. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
  • Vikram

    Gregor, you hit the nail on the head!

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