What do we owe posterity? How much of our income are we entitled to consume, and how much should we save or invest for the benefit of future generations? A number of theorists have addressed these questions in a framework where the future is unbounded; the results of such studies tend to be...

The longer term sustainability of the minerals sector may hinge, in large part, on finding innovative solutions to the challenges of energy intensity and carbon dioxide (CO) management. This article outlines the need for large‐scale “carbon solutions” that might be shared by several...

Can the same mathematical control laws that smooth out oscillations in the flight of an airplane also moderate economic cycles of boom and bust? Attempts to bring together the intellectual traditions of control engineering and economics go back at least as far as the hydraulic analog computer of...