Paul Krugman — American Economist born on February 28, 1953,

Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services... (wikipedia)

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.