Henry Thille

Economist, University of Guelph. Co-author, with Margaret E. Slade, of "Whither Hotelling: Tests of the Theory of Exhaustible Resources" (UBC Economics working paper) — the vault's sole primary source grounding its Hotelling's-rule claim cluster, deriving the r-percent rule from a mine owner's optimization problem and surveying the structural empirical tests that mostly reject its simple form.

References

• claim-hotellings-rule-shadow-price-rises-at-rate-of-interest · claim-hotellings-rule-predicts-shape-distinct-from-cost-of-production-cluster · claim-hotelling-model-frequently-rejected-by-empirical-commodity-data
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-16-does-hotellings-rule-for-exhaustible-resource-pricing-predict.md