| 書目名稱 | Energy and the Wealth of Nations | | 副標題 | An Introduction to B | | 編輯 | Charles A.S. Hall,Kent Klitgaard | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/311/310519/310519.mp4 | | 概述 | Includes several new chapters and comprehensive updates addressing the implications of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), access to energy and social inequality, and climate science and planetary bounda | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | In this updated?edition of a groundbreaking text, 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 explosion of the 20th century, and the interaction of internal limits to growth found in the investment process and rising inequality with the biophysical limits posed by finite energy resources.?The authors focus attention on the failure of markets to recognize or efficiently allocate diminishing resources, the economic consequences of peak oil, the high cost and relatively low EROI of finding and exploiting new oil fields, including the much ballyhooed shale plays and oil sands,?and whether alternative energy technologies such as wind and solar power can meet the minimum EROI requirements needed to run society as we know it..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 | | 出版日期 | Textbook 2018Latest edition | | 關鍵詞 | Alternative Energy Assessment; Ecological Economics Book; Economic Sustainability; Economics of Frackin | | 版次 | 2 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66219-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-09764-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-66219-0 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2018 |
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