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Economics: A Political and Mathematical Discipline
This introductory chapter discusses the nature of the economic discipline. Economics has to do with the production and reproduction of the material...
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A Narrative That Works for Both Energy and Economics
This chapter houses the concept behind the title of the book: a coherent combined energy and economic narrative is that the economy operates as a...
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Chapter 10: Joan Robinson on Economic Pluralism
This chapter draws on the insights by the grande dame of economics, the post-Keynesian economist Joan Robinson. She not only criticized the dominant...
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Applied Complexity: Finance and Economics in a New Light
The Scientific and theRevolutionindustrial Industrial RevolutionsIndustrial revolution have changed the face of the Earth forever. Today, we enjoy...
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Science and Economics: A Complex Relationship
The relationship between science and bourgeois capitalism is interesting, and there is no consensus on which is the most important for scientific and...
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Domänen der Klimaethik, ein neuer Blick – Domains of Climate Ethics Revisited
Die Klimaethik ist zu einem wichtigen Gebiet innerhalb der angewandten Ethik geworden. Sie ist nicht nur ein Unterthema der Umweltethik, sondern hat...
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Energy and Economic Narratives
This chapter introduces the reader to the concepts and ideas within the book. A real-world story of a Texas town voting on whether to allow natural...
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Valuable Knowledge from Formal Education
The search for enabling personal qualities brings the educational background of minority entrepreneurs into sharp focus in this chapter. This is a...
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Macromodel on the Wall, How Does Growth Occur, After All?
There are many recognized problems with neoclassical macroeconomic growth modeling. This chapter explores a small number of core criticisms that...
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The Energy Narratives: Fossil Fuels Versus Renewables
This chapter summarizes the competing narratives for and against the use of fossil and renewable energy resources and technologies. The chapter...
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Tax Your Sins, Experts Say
This chapter explains how sin taxes became a near-permanent strategy for governments to alter individual choice. It describes how sin taxes evolved...
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Energy and Food: The Megatrend of Megatrends
This chapter introduces the core data and concepts of energy. It provides a brief history of the concept of energy and distinguishes the concept of...
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Delusions of Control
This chapter discusses several ideas and explanations provided by economists and political scientists for economic growth, distribution, and consumer...
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Chapter 8: Gunnar Myrdal on Social Vulnerability
This chapter discusses the work of Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist who was as one of the founders of the Swedish welfare state. His work centres...
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Don’t Look Back
Is there room for human compassion in the rugged space frontier? Consider why an immigrant immigrates. Either life is abhorrent or dangerous where...
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Scenarios and Trends of the Future
Are we humans freely choosing our future societal and economic organization, or does our organization emerge in response to physical laws as we...
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Family Enterprise Participation Without Expectation: Emerging Adults (Ages 18 to 28)
Most emerging adults have one foot inside their nuclear family and one outside, with family dynamics and relationships—and even brain...
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Other Megatrends
Along with energy consumption and expenditures, there are several other megatrends of the global economy whose data provide context for navigating...
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Systems Thinking for Energy and the Economy: Size and Structure
In Chapter 5 the book shifts from exploring data trends and stories to a synthesis of how the trends relate to each other. The chapter begins by...