Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Energy, resources and environmental economics

Economics

Books on oil, gas, fracking, commodities, water, forests, climate policy and the material and energy basis of the economy, many by Vaclav Smil.

Books 25Experts 3Recommenders 9

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  1. The Climate CasinoWilliam Nordhaus, 2013
  2. Markets for Clean AirA. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, Elizabeth M. Bailey, 2000
  3. Crude VolatilityRobert McNally, 2017
  4. Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food SupplyDan Morgan, 1979
  5. The Limits to GrowthDonella H. Meadows et al., 1979
The Climate CasinoThe Climate Casino
T1 The Climate Casino
William Nordhaus · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The economics of climate change, and why a universal carbon price works best.

Markets for Clean AirMarkets for Clean Air
T2 Markets for Clean Air
A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, Elizabeth M. Bailey · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the 1990 US sulphur dioxide allowance trading programme worked in practice.

Crude Volatility
T3 Crude Volatility
Robert McNally · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Argues price stability always required a swing producer or cartel.

Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits ofMerchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
T4 Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
Dan Morgan · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

The family-owned firms, from Cargill to Bunge, that controlled the world grain trade.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Limits to GrowthThe Limits to Growth
T4 The Limits to Growth
Donella H. Meadows et al. · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

A computer model of exponential economic and population growth on finite resources.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Living Within LimitsLiving Within Limits
T4 Living Within Limits
Garrett Hardin · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Population and consumption face physical limits that economics ignores.

Recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai and 1 other

Forest Resource Economics and FinanceForest Resource Economics and Finance
T4 Forest Resource Economics and Finance
W. David Klemperer · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Standard textbook on rotation-age valuation and forest finance.

Natural CapitalismNatural Capitalism
T4 Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Resource productivity framed as an unpriced balance-sheet asset.

Recommended by: Joe Gebbia

Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest ProfiHot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market
T4 Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market
Jim Rogers · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why years of low prices and Chinese demand set up a long commodity bull market.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi OilTwilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
T4 Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Matthew R. Simmons · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

The peak-oil case against Saudi reserve claims; wrong but influential.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, tThe Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
T4 The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why energy demand never falls, why 'waste' helps, and why quality power is scarce.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Oil: A Beginner's GuideOil: A Beginner's Guide
T4 Oil: A Beginner's Guide
Vaclav Smil · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

A short technical primer on oil: geology, extraction, refining, uses and reserves.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Carbon MarketsCarbon Markets
T4 Carbon Markets
Arnaud Brohé, Nicholas Eyre, Nicholas Howarth · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

International business guide to allowances, offsets and registries.

Energy TransitionsEnergy Transitions
T4 Energy Transitions
Vaclav Smil · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Each shift from wood to coal to oil took 50 to 70 years; new ones will be slow too.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The QuestThe Quest
T4 The Quest
Daniel Yergin · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Energy from 1990 to 2011: Russian and Caspian oil, Iraq, climate policy, renewables.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai

World on the EdgeWorld on the Edge
T4 World on the Edge
Lester R. Brown · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and tUnder the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
T4 Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
Tom Wilber Books on Science · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Making the Modern World: Materials and DematMaking the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
T4 Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
Vaclav Smil · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How much steel, cement and plastic the world uses, and whether growth needs less.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai

The BetThe Bet
T4 The Bet
Paul Sabin · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich's wager on metal prices, and their fight over scarcity.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
T4 The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, The Barefoot Investor

The Green and the Black: The Complete Story The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking and the Future of Energy
T4 The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking and the Future of Energy
Gary Sernovitz · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

More from LessMore from Less
T4 More from Less
Andrew McAfee · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Evidence that rich economies now grow while using fewer physical resources.

“on how modern technological economies can build more outputs with less inputs” — Marc Andreessen

Source: @pmarca, companion thread to 'It's Time to Build'

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

Reinventing FireReinventing Fire
T4 Reinventing Fire
Amory Lovins
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Ev Williams

The Ultimate ResourceThe Ultimate Resource
T4 The Ultimate Resource
Julian L. Simon
Goodreads

Recommended by: Kevin Kelly

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
T4 Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Steven Solomon · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

A world history showing how control of water shaped political and economic power.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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