Scarcity
111The Diamond Age —   …
112Marginal utility — In economics, the marginal utility of a good or service is the utility gained (or lost) from an increase (or decrease) in the consumption of that good or service. Economists sometimes speak of a law of diminishing marginal utility, meaning that… …
113Anti-copyright — The symbol of Kopimi, an anti copyright initiative developed by the Piratbyrån, a Swedish organization actively opposing modern copyright law and practices, and the previous operators of BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, before it was spun off… …
114Muhammad Ali's seizure of power — The process of Muhammad Ali s seizure of power in Egypt was a long three way civil war between the Ottoman Turks, Egyptian Mamluks, and Albanian mercenaries. It ended in victory for the Albanians led by Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769 1849). The war… …
115Michael Harner — (born 1929) is the founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and the formulator of core shamanism. Harner is known for bringing shamanism and shamanic healing to the contemporary Western world. Walsh and Grob note in their book, Higher… …
116School of Salamanca — The School of Salamanca is the renaissance of thought in diverse intellectual areas by Spanish theologians, rooted in the intellectual and pedagogical work of Francisco de Vitoria. From the beginning of the 16th century the traditional Roman… …
117Technocracy (bureaucratic) — Technocracy : A form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; technocracy is described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to… …
118Desert warfare — Warfare Military history Eras Prehistoric Ancient Medieval Gunpowder Industrial …
119Thomas Homer-Dixon — (born 1956 in Victoria, British Columbia) holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and is a Professor of Political Science at the University… …
120The Long Emergency — The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty first Century is a book by James Howard Kunstler (Grove/Atlantic, 2005) exploring the consequences of a world oil production peak, coinciding with the forces of climate… …
