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Energy and the Wealth of Nations Understanding the Biophysical Economy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.