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Tim Morgan
Personal blog · surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.comeconomicsscience
Tim Morgan writes Surplus Energy Economics, a personal blog at surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com about economics and science. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The perils of extremes: A British Crisis”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tim Morgan's posts on how energy relates to the economy, including the Energy Cost of Energy concept. One commenter compares that concept to entropy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The home of the SEEDS economic model - Tim Morgan
Most-linked posts?
- The perils of extremes: A British Crisis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-23
What Hacker News says?
Some argue that the economy is directly tied to energy. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/149-...
Comment linking /2019/04/05/149-the-big-challenges/
on “WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)”Submitted How wealth dies as a story · 79 points
HN discussionhttps://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/294-... > The critical marker for this process is the Energy Cost of Energy , a measure of the proportion of accessed energy which, being consumed in the energy access process, is not available for any other economic purpose. Sounds suspiciously close to the classic definition of entropy, if you ask me :) The Costanza strategy for economists is therefore to tea…
Comment linking /2024/12/06/294-the-perils-of-extremes/
on “What Economists Could Learn from George Costanza”Submitted The perils of extremes: A British Crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asking for the Moon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gravitational Pull: Managing the reality of 'Life after orthodoxy' as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pictures of Imperfection: Charting the Coming Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussion