About the Author
Name: Roger Baker
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Bio: Roger Baker is a member of the ASPO-USA Advisory Board, also a Founding Member, and is a scientific instrument designer, investor, writer, and transportation reform activist living in Austin (TX). Recently he has been writing commentaries on economics for the Austin-based Rag Blog.
Articles by Roger Baker
Exponential Growth Meets Finite Resources
Anyone devoted to the study of resource economics, especially peak oil, must finally abandon the comfortable foundations of geologic science and face up to the much messier and much less predictable economic side effects implied by the end of cheap energy. The end of cheap oil is now deeply intertwined with a growing sovereign (meaning national government) debt problem in such a way that treating either problem generally tends
Two Short Commentaries: Green Jobs Race Lost?
There is discomforting new green jobs data that suggest the USA might have already lost much of its technology leadership to green energy development abroad,
Commentary: Oil, Economics, and Politics–a tangled web of consequences
It will come as little surprise to most readers that the world is near to, or past, peak world oil production. Petroleum is so essential to the economics
Some Economic Implications of Peak Oil
World oil production probably peaked in 2008. Liquid fuel production, including oil, is indicated by the OPEC data [1] to have reached a peak in July 2008
