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In my book, The Physics of Capitalism , I analyzed the internal technological dynamics of modern capitalism and explained how they were related to its external relations with the natural world. This post is an attempt to unveil what an entirely new cosmology of technological development would look like under valerism, the name I gave to a new framework for thinking about the relationship between nature and civilization. If capitalism is all about growth, valerism is all about

The pharmaceutical industry in the United States often argues that high drug prices are justified as a reward for world-class innovation....

The housing affordability crisis in the United States and much of the Western world has emerged as a major political and economic...

"We cannot carry on trade without war, nor war without trade." This infamous comment from the notorious Dutch imperialist Jan Coen...

Humanity stands at a critical moment. We are riven by wars, pandemics, geopolitical rivalries, and ecological upheaval. The time is soon...

In 1970, the climate scientist Syukuro Manabe published a paper that made one of the most remarkable predictions in the history of...

Let’s talk about fusion reactors, some of the most exotic and poorly understood technologies that have been proposed for solving our...

In my new book, The Physics of Capitalism , I focus on the concept of energy conversion as the critical element for understanding the...