I today, April 11th 2011, hereby declare to have invented the phrase The Economic Consequences of the Peak Or ECP fort short. Most of us have heard about the book by John Maynard Keynes " The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) ", even if we have not read it. In that book he warned of the consequences of The Treaty of Versailles which ended WW I and probably partly caused WW II. I googled the phrase and found from December 27, 2007 an article by Gregory Clark on the economic consequences of peak oil I also found Economic Impact of Peak Oil , September 23, 2007 OK, that was very close. But not quite. Read more here