I will be making discounted copies of the book Energy: The Master Resource available on the MBM bookshelf at Hot Commodities in the next week or so - $5 per copy (it sells for $19.95 on Amazon). For those who don't mind reading on-line, the text of the book along with its graphs / tables is available in Adobe PDF format as well for free.
The book is an excellent introduction to the energy markets as well as to free market principles -- a more gentle introduction than, say, Julian Simon's Ultimate Resource 2 (which is an outstanding book, but weightier - if that's a word).
From the back cover of Energy: The Master Resource:
"Energy is uniquely essential to modern life and human progress; it is the master resource. This book describes how the ultimate resource, the human mind, has harnessed energy to meet the world's increasing needs
Through history, human knowledge, creativity, and sweat have overcome technical, resource, and environmental challenges to convert energy into useful work. The authors persuasively argue that given the right incentives, inventive people will make energy's future even brighter than its past."
Speaking of the MBM bookshelf -- please post comments on selection, suggestions for more interesting / sellable topics. I will be withdrawing the Sowell Basic Economics book -- not moving at all (probably looks too big / intimidating for the newby and too basic for those with econ backgrounds).
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