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canonical_name: "Henry Thille"
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Economist, University of Guelph. Co-author, with [[entity-margaret-e-slade|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