Portents and predictions

On the Portents of Peak Oil (and Other Indicators of Resource Scarcity) on the Portents of Peak Oil (and Other Indicators of Resource Scarcity) on the Portents of Peak Oil

Although economists have studied various indicators of resource scarcity (e.g., unit cost, resource rent, and market price), the phenomenon of “peaking” has largely been ignored due to its connection to non-economic theories of resource exhaustion (the Hubbert Curve). I take a somewhat different view, one that interprets peaking as a reflection of fundamental economic determinants of an interte...

Ominous signs and portents: a purchaser's view of health care market trends.

Signs and portents: monstrous births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Hellenistic medicine". The contributors have sought in their different ways to assert a place for the medicine of ancient Israel among her neighbours, and by stating what is known of a little studied subject, to provide a basis for further research and investigation. in his study of pharmacology and dietetics in the Bible and Talmud, Fred Rosner gives a general overview of the subject and then ...

Institutional repositories as portents of change : Disruption or reassembly ? Conjectures and reconfigurations

This paper reviews how Open Access policies (OA) and Institutional Repositories (IR) might be portrayed as agents of change within the realm of scholarly publishing. Using commentary on academic publishing as background, commentary that sees OA and IR as optimal and inevitable, and beneficially disruptive of the existing system, two theoretical approaches are presented as ways of providing a mo...

Perspective: Ominous Signs And Portents: A Purchaser's View Of Health Care Market Trends