Energy and the Wealth of Nations : Understanding the Biophysical Economy. 1st ed. 2012
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- 電子ブック
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- by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard
- 出版情報:
- New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012
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- ISBN:
- 9781441993984 [1441993983]
- 注記:
- 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.
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 the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, energy and matter are completely recycled in these transactions, and economic activity is seemingly exempt from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As we enter the second half of the age of oil, and as energy supplies and the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption become major issues on the world stage, this exemption appears illusory at best. In Energy and the Wealth of Nations, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our “petroleum economy.” Hall and Klitgaard explore the relation between energy and the wealth explos - ローカル注記:
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