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Session 1: Energy Return on Investment
Review on Energy Return on Investment (by David Murphy)
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Peak Gas and EROI (by Bryan Sell)
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Epistemological Comparative Analysis of Neoclassical and Biophysical Economics (by Young-Ko)
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Session 2: Theoretical Discourse and Current Debates
Financialization, Stagnation and Peak Oil (by Kent Klitgaard)
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Straightforward Empirical Analysis of 131 Countries (by Ajay Gupta)
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Session 3: Energy - GDP Correlation and Implications
Energy and Globalization - A Fairy Tale, No Happy Ending (by Hannes Kunz)
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The Origins of Value (by Karl Seeley)
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Debt and Our Situation (by Nate Hagens)
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Delusions of Finance (by Gail Tverberg)
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Plenary Lecture: Biophysical Economics and the Collapse of Complex Societies (by Joseph Tainter)
What is the Minimum EROI that Society can Have? (by Charles Hall)
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Session 4: EROI and Implications for Economic Systems
Peak Oil, EORI and Net Energy (by George Mobus)
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Biophysical Economics for the Upland Philippines (by Sarah Herbst)
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EROI for China (by Feng Lianyong)
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Participatory Modeling of Post-Peak Oil Scenarios in Minnesota (by Laura Schmitt-Olabisi)
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Economic Prediction in Non-linear Domain (by Jack Alpert)
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Session 5: Communicating Inconvenient Realities
Why Efficiency Improvement Causes Growing Consumption (by Phil Henshaw)
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