Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ayres, Robert (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: The Frontiers Collection,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Thermodynamics.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Economics.; Natural resources.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Economic Systems.; Natural Resource Economics.

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary “progress”. For the modern economy, natural wealth consists of complex physical structures of condensed (“frozen”) energy – mass - maintained in the earth’s crust far from thermodynamic equilibrium. How...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Glossary of Terms
• Glossary of People
• Part I.
• A Brief History of Ideas: Energy, Entropy and Evolution
• The Cosmos, the Sun and the Earth
• The Origin of Life
• Energy, Water, Climate and Cycles
• Summary of Part I: From the “Big Bang” to Nutrient Cycles
• Part II
• Energy and Technology
• The New World – and Science
• Energy, Technology and the Future
• Part III
• Mainstream Economics and Energy
• New Perspectives on Capital, Work, and Wealth
• Epilogue
• Appendix. Energy in Growth Theory
• References.