Energy and the Financial System What Every Economist, Financial Analyst, and Investor Needs to Know /

The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap energy made available through the exploitation of fossil fuels. As a result, its viability is completely dependent upon the continuation of that growt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boyd, Roger (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Energy Analysis,
Subjects:
Finance.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Economic development.
Cogeneration of electric power and heat.
Fossil fuels.
Environmental economics.
Financial Economics.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Economic Growth.
Fossil Fuel.
Environmental Economics.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Nature of the Problem
  • Chapter 2. It takes Energy to get Energy
  • Chapter 3. It's the flow stupid!
  • Chapter 4. A Financial System Addicted to Exponential Growth
  • Chapter 5. So What Can I Do?
  • Index.

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