Energy, resources, and the long-term future / John Scales Avery

Author: Avery, John, 1933-
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, [2007]
Copyright Date: ©2007
Physical Description: xiii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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World Scientific series on energy and resource economics ; v. 4.

Contents

THE IDEA OF PROGRESS: Cultural evolution -- Condorcet -- Godwin -- Adam Smith -- THE DISMAL SCIENCE: Malthus -- Ricardo and the Iron Law of Wages -- DARK SATANIC MILLS: Development of the steam engine -- Working conditions -- The slow acceptance of birth control in England -- ROBSON'S THEORY: The colonial era -- Hobson's explanation -- The neocolonial era? -- MAINSTREAM INDUSTRIALISM: Trade unions and minimum wage laws -- Rising standards of living -- Robber barons and philanthropists -- The conflict between capitalism and communism -- Globalization -- Say's law -- VEBLEN, GANDHI AND THE GREENS: Veblen; economics as anthropology -- Gandhi as an economist -- Thoreau -- The counter-culture -- The Brundtland Report -- The Earth Summit at Rio -- GROWTH AND NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES: Biology and economics -- The Club of Rome -- Global energy resources -- Hubbert peaks for oil and gas -- Oilsands, tarsands and heavy oil -- Coal -- Climate change -- Metals -- Groundwater -- Topsoil -- RENEWABLE ENERGY: Beyond the fossil fuel era -- Biomass -- Solar energy -- Wind energy -- Hydroelectric power -- Energy from the ocean -- Geothermal energy -- Hydrogen technologies -- ECONOMICS WITHOUT GROWTH: The transition from growth to a steady state-minimizing the trauma -- Keynesian economics -- The transition to a sustainable economy -- Population and goods per capita -- and OPTIMUM GLOBAL POPULATION: The Green Revolution -- Energy inputs of agriculture -- Limitations on cropland -- The demographic transition -- Urbanization -- Achieving economic equality -- The need for new values -- THE PROBLEM OF WAR: The passions of mankind -- Modern weapons -- War as a business -- War as a hindrance to global equality -- Global inequalities as a hindrance to peace -- The future of global governance -- Global ethics -- SCIENCE: ITS OPPORTUNITIES AND DANGERS: Science as organized knowledge -- Exponential growth -- Patrons of science and engineering -- Rapidly growing fields -- Science and technology out of control? -- The need for ethics -- LEARNING TO LIVE IN HARMONY: New goals for education -- Learning from pre-industrial cultures -- Science and social institutions -- Building the future.

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ISBN

9789812707642
9812707646

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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