Energy and the Wealth of Nations

Part I Energy and the Origins of Wealth.- Poverty, Wealth, and Human Ambition.- Energy and Wealth Production: An historical perspective.- The Petroleum Revolution I: The first half of the age of oil.- Part II Energy, Economics and the Structure of Society.- Explaining Economics from an Energy Perspective.- The Limits of Conventional Economics.- The Petroleum Revolution II: Concentrated Power and Concentrated Industries.- The Postwar Economic Order, Growth and the Hydrocarbon Economy.- Globalization and Efficiency.- Are there Limits to Growth? Examining the Evidence.- Part III Energy and Economics-the Basics.- What is Energy and How is it Related to Wealth Production?.- The Basic Science Needed to Understand the Relation of Energy to Economics.- The Required Quantitative Skills.- Economics as Science: Social or Biophysical?.- Part IV The Science Behind How Economies Work.- Energy Return on Investment.- Peak Oil, EROI, Investments and Our Financial Future.- Access to Energy and Social Inequality.- The Role of Economic Models for Good and Evil.- How to do Biophysical Economics.- Part V Understanding How Real World Economies Work.- Peak Oil, the Great Recession and the Quest for Sustainability.- Energy, Climate Science, and Planetary Boundaries.- Living the Good Life in a Lower EROI World.

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• Recursos energéticos
• Economia ambiental

Alternative Energy Assessment;Ecological Economics Book;Economic Sustainability;Economics of Fracking;Embodied Energy;End of Cheap Oil;Energy Return on Energy Invested;Energy Return on Investment;Eroi or Eroei of Unconventional Oil;Eroi or Erori of Alternative Energy;Limits to Growth;Oil Prices and the Economy;Wealth Production Energy;lack of economic growth;secular stagnation;data-driven science, modeling and theory building