In 1913, in what is now an affluent suburb of Cairo, Egypt, an American engineer named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, which pumped 100 gallons/second of Nile water ...

Matthew Yglesias waxes rhapsodic about being on the "back half of the chessboard" in terms of the exponential growth of computer technologies. The point of this, in terms of technological progress, is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1933 by a group of young British and American economists, The Review of Economic Studies aims to encourage research in ...