<blockquote>'..a man's affective response to definite conditions of the universe..'
- Ludwig von Mises (
context)</blockquote>
'And then a French tradition developed in the 18th century and continued in France and Italy, leading to a fantastic flowering of modern economic thought — Cantillon and Turgot in particular.'<blockquote>'Schumpeter is definitely a revisionist in this sense: He believes that life existed before Adam Smith, economics existed before Adam Smith — not only existed, but was better. In other words, what you have is many hundreds of years of sound economic analysis: Scholastics from Aquinas in the Middle Ages down through the Spanish Scholastics in the late 16th century. And then a French tradition developed in the 18th century and continued in France and Italy, leading to a fantastic flowering of modern economic thought —
Cantillon and
Turgot in particular.
And you have everything there. You have laissez-faire much more pure and much more sound than Adam Smith. In fact, Turgot, if any of you read my old pamphlet on it, is really pre-Austrian in every sense.<a href="[
mises.org];[1]</a> He's got time preference in there, he's got the Böhm-Bawerkian theory of capital, the whole business; it's fantastic. He's got the laws of diminishing returns. He's got the whole schmear.'
- Murray N. Rothbard,
Orthodox Historiography of Economic Thought, 1986</blockquote>
*** Energy - Desertec<blockquote>-
Desertec-
'Crises often present opportunities...' & Desertec 'We are an idea, a movement.' 05/27/2010
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EU sees solar power imported from Sahara in 5 years, Jun 20, 2010
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Desertec - ' "I was considered an oddball," says Knies.' 05/27/2010
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'..German companies, which are worldwide leaders in solar technology..', 05/27/2010
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The Desertec Industrial Initiative - Sahara Sun 'to help power Europe', 2 November 2009
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'HB': Niederländer Paul van Son soll Desertec-Leiter werden, 23 Oktober 2009
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Desertec - '...a New Era in Energy', 07/13/2009</blockquote>
*** IT<blockquote>-
European Grid Infrastructure</blockquote>
*** Transport (Rail, Water, Electric)<blockquote>-
China plans bullet trains to 17 nations-
Can inland water transport play a larger role in global supply chains? 22 February 2010
- Electric propulsion -
'...new generation of space-propulsion systems.'</blockquote>
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