Category Archives: engineering

Policy as a Problem in Engineering

I couldn’t resist attending this talk. It wasn’t especially well-attended, and I think the audience that appeared was not entirely receptive. I enjoyed it though. Corey KingPresident, Energetics Research and Engineering Design Synthesis of Multistable Equilibrium Systems and the World Development/Energy Path Design synthesis can be thought of as picking a desired outcome and then…

Economists vs Engineers

For those wandering in here without context, I am advocating a rethinking of economics in the light of sustainability issues in general and climate change in particular. Consider minutes 4 through 7 of this video of a Google Tech Talk by Van Jacobson. “It’s not that the solution we have is a bad one, it’s…