• Click to download eight-page space study guide (pdf)

 

• Click for Space Policy Notes page with movies, books, and online space videos (pdf)

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Space Economics Videos...

 

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SpaceTechnology

Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition (strange technology dept.), Martian Chronicle: From Earth to Mars..., Prospects for Space Tourism, Take a tour with Interglobal Space Lines..., Can only governments get us into space? See John Jewkes, Sources of Invention, The Starship Private Enterprise, Frontiers: Last, Lost, and Found, A Space Pyramid?

Plains, Trains, & Automobiles

Airplanes: Govt.-backed Langley vs. Wright Brothers. Airships: The Great Airship Race (the R100 vs. R101), Automobiles: Economics and American History: For and Against Preston Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Paul Moller's Skycar. Steamships: Vanderbilt & Collins Race the Atlantic. New American Industrial Policy

Texas World!

Too many people on Earth? Perhaps they would all be better off in Texas..., 5,999,999,999 and Counting

Sources of Invention

Entrepreneurial Sources of Invention (lecture notes) Full text of John Jewkes essay, "The Sources of Invention" from Essays on Liberty, Vol IV.

Environmental Technology

Articles on environmental issues, Julian Simon page, Economics of Renewable Energy, New! Alaska oil fields and caribou

Antitrust & Monopoly

FEE Student Seminar: Is Antitrust Anticompetitve? Seattle April 20-21, Breaking Up Antitrust, The Failure of Antitrust Policy, Unions and Antitrust, The Ghost of Rockefeller, The Rhetoric of Antitrust, The Butter Monopoly?, Microsoft and Consumers, Merger Policy Fails Hi-Tech Test, The Irresistible Force of Market Competition, "Lock-in" theory is dead wrong, Barbarians at Bill Gates, Philosophy Behind Microsoft Trial

Airships & Oceans

Airships: Capitalism vs. Socialism in The Great Airship Race, The Baron's Big Balloon: A German aristocrat-businessman is relaunching the age of the airship, armed with millions in the bank and a team of crack engineers. Can superblimps rise again? (Wired article)., Airships: A brief history. Build your own (small) airship.

Ocean enterprises: Welcome to Oceania! Dealing with an iron-poor ocean, "Give me a half-tanker of iron, and I'll give you an ice age" (Scientific American "Fertilizing the Sea" article), Fishing for Markets Regulation and Ocean Farming (Cato Institute article)

The Sources of Invention by John Jewkes

Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition (strange technology dept.)

 

Click to go to John Tierney's Martian Chronicle article.

The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel

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