Risorse e contributi
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Collegamenti e spunti interessanti
In questa sezione cerchiamo di elencare risorse che offrono spunti di riflessione intorno alla bioeconomia.
The Story of Stuff
Movie Download
You can download The Story of Stuff in its entirity from this site. Simply save the link below to your computer (50 MB).
http://www.sosvids.com/StoryOfStuff.mov
The Story of Stuff International
http://www.storyofstuff.com/international/
Freedom of choice
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html
Our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html Corsivo
The distribution of world income
One of the most profound questions in economics is why are some countries rich and others poor.
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2007/01/the_distributio.html
Working harder and harder to keep oil production from falling
The challenges for private oil companies to increase oil production are pretty daunting.
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2009/10/working_harder.html
odd links
Dr. Hubbert predicted in 1956 that US oil production would peak at about 3 billion barrels in 1970. He was a little off. Instead it peaked at 3.5 billion barrels in 1970.
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/1956/1956.pdf
... somewhat comforting news
http://www.iaee.org/en/students/best_papers/Adam_Brandt.pdf
... peak production will likely be less than 40 billion barrels a year and possibly less than 35 billion barrels a year
http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/tiki-index.php?page=Global+Oil+Depletion
