Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization [E-Book] / by Robert Ayres
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress". For the modern economy, natural wealth consists of complex physical structures of condensed ("frozen") energy - mass - maintained in the earth's crust far from therm...
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Personal Name(s): | Ayres, Robert U., author |
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1st ed. 2016 |
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Cham :
Springer,
2016
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Physical Description: |
XXV, 593 pages 121 illustrations, 120 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783319305455 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-30545-5 |
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The Frontiers Collection
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- Preface
- Glossary of Terms
- Glossary of People
- Part I.
- A Brief History of Ideas: Energy, Entropy and Evolution
- The Cosmos, the Sun and the Earth
- The Origin of Life
- Energy, Water, Climate and Cycles
- Summary of Part I: From the "Big Bang" to Nutrient Cycles
- Part II
- Energy and Technology
- The New World - and Science
- Energy, Technology and the Future
- Part III
- Mainstream Economics and Energy
- New Perspectives on Capital, Work, and Wealth
- Epilogue
- Appendix. Energy in Growth Theory
- References.