| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| DOI | 10.1007/s41247-018-0046-3
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| ISBN | 2366-0112
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| Energy capture, technological change, and economic growth: an evolutionary perspective. |
| Court, Victor
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| 发表日期 | 2018-08-17
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| 出处 | BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality
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| 出版者 | Springer Verlag
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 页码 | 1-27
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | After several decades of discussions, mainstream economics still does not recognize the crucial role that energy plays in the economic process. Hence, the purpose of this article is to reformulate a clear and in-depth state of knowledge provided by a thermo-evolutionary perspective of the economic system. First, definitions of essential concepts such as energy, exergy, entropy, self-organization, and dissipative structures are recalled, along with a statement of the laws of thermodynamics. The comprehension of such basics of thermodynamics allows an exploration of the meaning of thermodynamic extremal principles for the evolution of physical and biological systems. A theoretical thermo-evolutionary approach is then used to depict technological change and economic growth in relation to the capture of energy and its dissipation. This theoretical analysis is then placed in a historical context. It is shown that during the entirety of human history, energy has been central to direct the successive phases of technological change and economic development. In particular, energy is crucial to understanding the transition from foraging to farming societies on the one hand, and from farming to industrial societies on the other. Finally, the theoretical and historical insights previously described are used to discuss a possible origin of the economic slowdown of the most advanced economies for the last 40 years. The article concludes that conventional economic growth theories should finally acknowledge the central role that energy plays in the economic process. |
| 关键词 | Energy capture
Technological change
Economic growth
Evolution
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| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78679/
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| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/469101
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