Energy and the Wealth of Nations Understanding the Biophysical Economy /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Hall, Charles A. S. (Συγγραφέας), Klitgaard, Kent A. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Έκδοση: 1.
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Economic geography.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Energy Economics.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Economic Geography.

For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers.  In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Energy and the Origins of Wealth
• Chapter 1.  Poverty, Wealth, and Human Ambition
• Chapter 2. Energy and Wealth Production: An historical perspective
• Chapter 3.  The Petroleum Revolution I: The first half of the age of oil
• Part II. Energy, Economics and the Structure of Society
• Chapter 4.  Explaining Economics from an Energy Perspective
• Chapter 5.  The Limits of Conventional Economics
• Chapter 6.  The Petroleum Revolution II: Concentrated Power and Concentrated Industries
• Chapter 7.  The Postwar Economic Order, Growth and the Hydrocarbon Economy
• Chapter 8.  Globalization and Efficiency
• Chapter 9.  Are there Limits to Growth? Examining the Evidence
• Part III. Energy and Economics—the Basics
• Chapter 10.  What is Energy and How is it Related to Wealth Production?
• Chapter 11.  The Basic Science Needed to Understand the Relation of Energy to Economics
• Chapter 12.  The Required Quantitative Skills
• Chapter 13.  Economics as Science: Social or Biophysical?
• Part IV. The Science Behind How Economies Work
• Chapter 14.  Energy Return on Investment
• Chapter 15.  Peak Oil, EROI, Investments and Our Financial Future
• Chapter 16.  The Role of Economic Models for Good and Evil
• Chapter 17.  How to do Biophysical Economics
• Part V. Understanding How Real World Economies Work
• Chapter 18.  Peak Oil, the Great Recession and the Quest for Sustainability
• Chapter 19.  Environmental Considerations: Beyond Externalities
• Chapter 20.  Living the Good Life in a Lower EROI World.