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==Technical Alliance project==
The [[Technical Alliance]] 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 [[North America]] 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 [[technate]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biophysical_economics |title=Biophysical economics
|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Earth
|author=
|date=
|accessdate=2009-03-27
}}</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>{{cite web
|url=http://www.oilcrisis.com/hubbert/aip/aip_iv.htm |title=M. King Hubbert Interviewed by Ronald E. Doel
|publisher=Oilcrisis.com
|author=
|date=1989-01-17
|accessdate=2009-03-27
}}</ref>
The movement grew rapidly and once had 250,000 members and employed up to one hundred people at Columbia assembling statistical data.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_61689.htm |title=The Rise and Fall of the Hubbert Curve: Its origins and Current Perceptions
|publisher=confex.com
|author=McCabe, Peter J.
|date=2003-11-02
|accessdate=2009-03-27
}}</ref>
In the ''Technocracy Study Course'' M. King Hubbert called economists apologists for businessmen. More recently [[Howard T. Odum]] charged that "...the economists have not been educated in [[energetics]] and therefore have not understood the second law of energy ([[Thermodynamics]]) and the fact that energy is not reused." Science writer [[Malcolm Slesser]] criticized economists, since they "tend to take technological progress for granted as if they could buy their way around the laws of thermodynamics."<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/2023/SWP-1353-09057784.pdf?sequence=1 |title=From Technocracy to Net Energy Analysis: Engineers, Economists and Recurring Energy Theories of Value
|publisher=[[MIT]]
|author=Ernst R. Berndt
|date=1982-09
|accessdate=2009-03-27
}}</ref> Hence, antipathy toward economists is common both to Technocrats and net energy analysts.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Net_energy_analysis
|title=Net energy analysis
|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Earth
|author=
|date=
|accessdate=2009-03-27
}}</ref>
==Excerpt from the Technocracy Study Course==
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