M. King Hubbert

October 5th, 1903 -- October 11th, 1989

B.S. (1926), M.S. (1928), and Ph. D. (1937), University of Chicago. Instructor of geophysics at Columbia University through the 30's.

He was involved in the founding of Technocracy, Inc. and was Director of Education until about 1942.

M. King Hubbert’s contributions to Technocracy:

• He was the primary author of the Technocracy Study Course.

• Man-Hours and Distribution which was derived from an earlier article, Man-Hours -- A Declining Quantity in Technocracy, Series A, No. 8, August 1936.

• Determining the Most Probable in Technocracy, Series A, No. 12, June 1938

• Some Facts of Life in Technocracy, Series A, No. 5, December, 1938.

• The ``Spirit of the Constitution'' in Technocracy, Series A, No. 6, March 1936.

• Where Are The Technocrats of Yesteryear? in The Northern Technocrat April 1938, No. 17

• Book review: The Tools of Tomorrow in Technocracy, Series A, No. 3, Aug 1935

• Book Review: Reshaping Agriculture and Nations Can Live at Home. Technocracy, Series A, Number 7, May 1936

• Book review: An Orientation in Science in Technocracy, Series A, No. 16, July, 1939.

M. King Hubbert also did (and is probably most well known for) some very important research into fossil fuel depletion (that web page has links to many related resources)

For more background in his economic theories see M. King Hubbert on the Nature of Growth (from hearings before a congressional committee) and Hubbert's Prescription for Survival, A Steady State Economy by Robert L. Hickerson (March 1, 1995).

The above photo was taken in January 1933.