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Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the fact remains that high-income, high-energy societies could thrive without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material to comtemporary civilization, a comprehensive resource is needed for metallurgists, non-metallurgists, and anyone with a background in environmental studies, industry, manufacturing, and history, seeking a broader understanding of the history of iron and steel and its current and future impact on society. Given its coverage of the history of iron and steel from its genesis to slow pre-industrial progress, revolutionary advances during the 19th century, magnification of 19th century advances during the past five generations, patterns of modern steel production, the ubiquitous uses of the material, potential substitutions, advances in relative dematerialization, and appraisal of steel's possible futures, Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World by world-renowned author Vaclav Smil meets that need.

Iron --- Steel --- History. --- Metallurgy. --- Iron industry and trade. --- Steel industry and trade. --- Social aspects. --- Ferrous metal industries --- Metal trade --- Iron industry and trade --- Steel industry and trade --- Native element minerals --- Transition metals --- Siderophile elements --- Eisen- und Stahlindustrie. --- Eisenherstellung. --- Stahlherstellung.

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This book covers the Resistivity Recovery (RR) technique, underlying its physical principles, performance and problematic. A concise review on the state of the art is provided, showing the advances in radiation modelling, linking both experimental and theoretical fields. The reader will find a data compilation and comparison of up-to-date results obtained from the European Fusion Development Agreement model alloys. .

Materials science. --- Nuclear energy. --- Solid state physics. --- Metals. --- Materials Science. --- Metallic Materials. --- Solid State Physics. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Iron. --- Iron alloys --- Iron --- Electrometallurgy. --- Native element minerals --- Transition metals --- Siderophile elements --- Materials. --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Materials --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Physics --- Solids --- Metallic elements --- Chemical elements --- Ores --- Metallurgy

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This book provides a new way of understanding modern money and markets by stressing their self-fulfilling/self-destructive properties as institutions from evolutionary perspectives. In contrast to an unrealistic view of the neoclassical general equilibrium theory that models the price mechanism of a “concentrated market” without using money, presented here is an alternative theory of markets on how a realistic “dispersive market” using a stock of money and inventory as buffers can work as a multilayered price-quantitative adjustment system. The central features of modern sovereign moneys seen in inconvertible IOUs of central banknotes can be depicted as “The Emperor's New Clothes” that correspond to the U.S. dollar and the Euro void of their own value. The image captures such characteristics of national currencies as “self-fulfilling ideas” by the inertia of conventions in the past and expectations of an uncertain future. Both ideas normally make money more acceptable and circulative so that its value can become more stable unless expectations for the future turn very pessimistic. The same logic also applies to such other currencies as Bitcoin and community currencies. Their recent diffusion has shown that Hayek's idea of denationalization of money and competition between multiple currencies in terms of its qualities, not its quantities sought as in ongoing quantitative easing, become more relevant under current situations. The qualities of money refer not only to stable monetary values and low transaction costs, but also to high ability in creating, sharing, and communicating social and cultural value. The potential of the logic of self-fulfillment of ideas can thus open up a new economic society when we realize that such various non-national currencies all depend on the same logic of money.

Macroeconomics --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economics --- World history --- bitcoin --- economie --- economische politiek --- macro-economie --- economische geschiedenis --- Evolutionary economics. --- Macroeconomics. --- Economic history. --- Economic policy. --- Institutional/Evolutionary Economics. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Economic History. --- Economic Policy. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Evolutionary economics --- Gold --- Bitcoin --- Value --- Standard of value --- Cost --- Exchange --- Wealth --- Prices --- Supply and demand --- Cryptocurrencies --- Specie --- Native element minerals --- Precious metals --- Transition metals --- Money --- E-books

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This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.

Gold -- History. --- Gold standard -- History. --- Money -- History. --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Money --- Gold standard --- Gold --- History. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 331.150 --- 333.421.1 --- -Gold standard --- -Money --- -332.422209 --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Exchange --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Exchange standard, Gold --- Gold exchange standard --- Standard, Gold --- International liquidity --- Bimetallism --- Native element minerals --- Precious metals --- Transition metals --- Geschiedenis van het geldwezen: algemeenheden. --- Gouden standaard. --- History --- E-books --- 332.422209 --- Geschiedenis van het geldwezen: algemeenheden --- Gouden standaard