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| The '''Technocracy Study Course''' is a book published by Technocracy Incorporated in 1934 that formed the basis of the ]. The ] was formed in conjunction with the ] Department at ], and began an empirical analysis of production and employment in North America in energy units. This information was then published as the Technocracy Study Course. | |||
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| The '''''Technocracy Study Course''''' is a ] critique of the ], written by ] and first published in 1934. It is the ideological basis for the ], highlighting economic and social consequences of the capitalist ] and suggests an alternative socioeconomic system based on physical laws and constraints.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hubbert|first1=Marion King|title=Technocracy Study Course|date=1945|publisher=Technocracy Inc.|url=https://archive.org/download/TechnocracyStudyCourseUnabridged/TechnocracyStudyCourse-NewOpened.pdf|accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> | |||
| The term technology became widely used after the early-twentieth-century rise of "technocracy," a movement that promoted technical superiority by seeking to replace the subjectivity of politics by the assumed objectivity of engineering.<ref>http://science.jrank.org/pages/11395/Technology-Technocracy.html </ref> | |||
| ] a geo-scientist was also an avid ]. He co-founded ] with ] and contributed significantly to the ''Technocracy Study Course'', the precedent document of that group which advocates a ] form of ],<ref>http://telstar.ote.cmu.edu/environ/m3/s3/05account.shtml Environmental Decision making, Science and Technology</ref>as opposed to the current ] method.<ref>Cutler J. Cleveland, , ''Encyclopedia of Earth'', Last updated: September 14, 2006.</ref> | |||
| Hubbert was a member of the Board of Governors, and served as Secretary of education to that organisation<ref>http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/Technocracy1943.pdf Hubbert investigation (1943), p41 (p50 of PDF)</ref> | |||
| ==History== | |||
| ] developed a 'Theory of Energy Determinants' also referred to as ] which according to ], formed the basis of determining the operational dynamic of functional social design on a continental scale of magnitude for North America.<ref>http://www.technocracy.org/origins-1.htm</ref> Gibbs ] approach led to the concepts of ] as conceived by the ]. <ref>http://telstar.ote.cmu.edu/environ/m3/s3/05account.shtml</ref> Scott referred to Gibbs as the person that made possible the concept of ] using ] in a ] design.<ref>http://www.technocracy.org/Archives/History%20&%20Purpose-r.htm</ref>The design using ] as proposed by this group is located in the last two chapters of the book. Much of the rest of the book is basic information about science and different aspects of research and data collecting, and also examples of how a ] works, and possible alternatives. | |||
| ==Technical Alliance project== | |||
| The ] measured and assessed the extent of the land's natural resources of soil, metals, fuels, hydrology and its energy resources, its transport and communications and construction capabilities, its industrial and technological productive capacity, its available scientific, engineering, biological trained personnel--all to determine whether the area of ] could provide an equitably individualized high optimum standard of living for its population, and if so, how this could be brought about in the form of a governing body which they later referred to as a ].<ref>http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biophysical_economics</ref> | |||
| M. King Hubbert, a later member of the Technical Alliance collated most of the information for teaching the principles of the movement: the ''Technocracy Study Course''. | |||
| ...'I drew up a kind of a small study course of the basics of what we were talking about, for use in these small groups that were assembling around. That was published in a small booklet without authorship. It was called Technocracy Study Course'<ref>http://www.oilcrisis.com/hubbert/aip/aip_iv.htm</ref> | |||
| The movement grew rapidly and once had 250,000 members and employed up to one hundred people at Columbia assembling statistical data.<ref>http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_61689.htm</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 22:09, 8 December 2015
| Author | M. King Hubbert |
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| Language | English |
| Publication date | 1934 |
| Publication place | United States |
The Technocracy Study Course is a technocratic critique of the price system, written by M. King Hubbert and first published in 1934. It is the ideological basis for the Technocracy movement, highlighting economic and social consequences of the capitalist price system and suggests an alternative socioeconomic system based on physical laws and constraints.
References
- Hubbert, Marion King (1945). Technocracy Study Course (PDF). Technocracy Inc. Retrieved 12 June 2015.