书目名称 | Energy and the Wealth of Nations | 副标题 | Understanding the Bi | 编辑 | Charles A. S. Hall,Kent A. Klitgaard | 视频video | | 概述 | Integrates energy and economics.Uses predictive tools and measures, such as EROI, to show how the economy is embedded in a biophysical world subject to scientific rules and constraints.Provides a fres | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 explosion of the 20th century, the failure of markets to recognize or efficiently allocate diminishing resources, the economic consequences of peak oil, the EROI for finding and | 出版日期 | Textbook 20121st edition | 关键词 | Embodied energy; Net energy; alternative energy assessment; biophysical economics; ecological economics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9398-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-9398-4 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 |
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