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July 22, 2010: Announcing History Dynamics, A Scientific Almanac of Human History.
History Dynamics, A Scientific Almanac of Human History, graphically portrays and compares power profiles for major dynasties around the world such as in England, France, Spain, Russia, China, India, the Middle East and West Africa.
After reading History Dynamics, you will view history in a whole new way. You will see history as the struggle of human psychology against the drive of macro-environmental forces. If you are concerned regarding the sustainability of society, History Dynamics is a must read, even if the lessons are not pleasant. (This approach is also espoused in the freely-downloadable e-book, Physical History and Economics, 2nd Edition).
While History Dynamics does not contain maps or a lot of fancy graphics, it does contains numerous graphs to help build perspective on major human societies over time and their impact upon each other in terms of power. This approach is experimental, and is still being developed. However, History Dynamics will provide you with a state-of-the-art, comprehensive view as it presently stands.
History Dynamics is not voluminous. This first edition may only be a few dozen pages. However, the science behind History Dynamics represents thirty years of effort, and this e-book represents considerable additional effort. The price of this e-book is necessary to help fund the time spent to create it.
PRE-ORDER A COPY BELOW:
History Dynamics will be emailed to you in pdf form in about mid-September, before it is available to the general pubic. Feel pree to print yourself a copy and make back-up copies, for your own use, but please do not post or circulate copies.
Cost $25.00 for pdf (electronic copy; you will need Adobe Acrobat 5 or later to read it).
June 7, 2010: Site Reorganization and Essays Section Added
This site has been reorganized to include an expanded research section as well as an essay section.
March 18, 2010: "Rise and Fall of Spain's Golden World" (PHE Case Study #2: ) Now Available Free of Charge.
Rise and Fall of Spain's Golden World is now available for no charge on the downloads page, or download it here (pdf).
January 28, 2010: "The Egg and The Earth" Space Fable Inspired by PHE Warns on Urgency of Space Funding
The Earth and the Egg is a space fable inspired by findings from the field of Physical History and Economics (PHE) that portrays human civilization as an embryo and the Earth as its egg. Continuing the analogy, the Earth has a yolk comprising exhaustible resources such as fossil fuels that once consumed cannot be replaced. So just as an egg must hatch before it consumes its yolk, humanity must allocate the resources to emerge from the Earth into a sustainably spacefaring civilization before such resources are exhausted, or likely miss the chance to do so forever.
Perhaps the answer to the Fermi paradox is that most extraterrestrial civilizations consume their exhaustible resources in a hedonistic manner without regard to space exploration development and miss their limited window to expand beyond their home planet. This is speculation, yet certainly plausible.
To view or download the fable and graphic, go here (pdf).
(Permission is given to freely distribute this fable and its accompanying graphic for noncommercial purposes as long as credit is given).
November 9, 2009: "Rise and Fall of Spain's Golden World" (PHE Case Study #2: ) Goes on Sale This Week.
Rise and Fall of Spain's Golden World is the second in a series of Physical History and Economics (PHE) case studies. It traces parallels in the progression of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties with the progression of Spain's regime in the Americas in terms of societal development and patterns of gold and silver extraction. Power profiles are generated and compared for the dynasties and regime.
To purchase the case study, go here.
November 2, 2009: PHE Research Produces Its First Policy Recommendation
Physical History and Economics research has produced its first practical, specific policy recommendation: that a tax be placed on fossil fuels, especially petroleum, and that the proceeds of that tax be used to make up for projected shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare funding over the next several decades.
This is called "bubble-matching" and can help simultaneously save social
security, medicare and the climate. For more, go here.
September 14, 2009: Physical History and Economics, 2nd Edition is published and online
The second edition of the mini-treatise Physical History and Economics, with significant new materials and examples, has been published and is now available online as a free download here.
Supplement one containing Appendices 3 to 6, including an expanded version of the Spain/New World case study is available online as a download for a small charge here.
June 9, 2009: This site is re-launched
The Fast Entropy informational web site is launched.
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