Annual J.P. Morgan Energy Report, June 2020
For the tenth year I had the opportunity to help Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan, in preparing JPM’s annual energy ...
News
Two-book deal with Viking
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/viking-strikes-two-book-deal-scientist-vaclav-smil-1181416
Growth is one of the five books on Bill Gates’s list of holiday book recommendations 2019
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Holiday-Books-2019
American Energy Society selects Vaclav Smil as “2019 Energy Writer of the Year”
The American Energy Society has selected Vaclav Smil as the 2019 Energy Writer of the Year, for his book, Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (The MIT Pre...
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities will be published by the MIT Press on September 24, 2019.
The book offers a systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. See Books for ...
Helsinki 2019
In May 2019 I travelled to Finland to accept an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki and to help with launching two new book translations: Energia...
Just Published: Annual JPMorgan Energy Issue, March 2019
For the ninth year I had the opportunity to help Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan, in preparing JPM’s Annual Energy ...
All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years: “Vaclav Smil is the author Gates has mentioned the most on his blog.”
https://qz.com/1285629/99-books-recommended-by-bill-gates-from-the-last-6-ck-years/
New Book Translations
Translations published in 2018 include Making the Modern World in Russian (Sozdanie sovremennogo mira by Gruppa Rosnano), Energy: A Beginner’s Guide in Czech (E...
Just Published: Annual JPMorgan Energy Issue, April 2018
Once again, I had the opportunity to help Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan, in preparing Annual Energy Reality Check...