Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

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Beschreibung

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth creation, and how this process acts according to physical laws, and usually after some part of the natural wealth of the planet has been exploited in an episode of "creative destruction." Knowledge and natural capital, particularly energy, will interact to power the human wealth engine in the future as it has in the past. Will it sputter or continue along the path of evolutionary progress that we have come to expect? Can the new immaterial wealth of information and ideas, which makes up the so-called knowledge economy, replace depleted natural wealth? These questions have no simple answers, butthis masterful book will help you to understand the grand challenge of our time.

Praise for Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization:

¿... people who run the modern world (politicians, economists and lawyers) have a very poor grasp of how it really works because they do not understand the fundamentals of energy, exergy and entropy ... those decision-makers would greatly benefit from reading this book ...¿ - Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba

¿... A grandiose design; impressive, worth reading and reflecting!¿ - Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizäcker, Founder of Wuppertal Institute; Co-President of the Club of Rome, Former Member of the German Bundestag, co-chair of the UN¿s Resource Panel

¿... The book is a must read for concerned citizens and decision makers across the globe.¿ - RK Pachauri, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and ex-chair, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Über den Autor

Professor Ayres holds a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Kings College, University of London, a MSc in Physics from the University of Maryland and a BA, BSc from the University of Chicago. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and Political Science and of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD, the international graduate business school.

He joined INSEAD in 1992, becoming the first Novartis Chair of Management and the Environment, as well as the founder of CMER, Center for the Management of Environmental Resources. He directed CMER from 1992-2000. Since retirement he has been a visiting professor at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden (where he was also a King's Professor) and Institute Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, He remains active, producing publications on topics ranging from Industrial Metabolisms and Industrial Ecology, through Environmental Policy and EnvironmentalEconomics, to Energy. Professor Ayres is the author or coauthor of 21 books, most recently including The Economic Growth Engine (2009, with Benjamin Warr), Crossing the Energy Divide (2009, with Edward Ayres) and The Bubble Economy (2014).

Zusammenfassung

Offers a first-principles view of the history of wealth creation

Shows the unity of the disciplines, from physics and biology to economics, for understanding the requirements of wealth creation

Explains the interactions of information and natural resource flows in the human economy

Highlights the need for business and political leaders to understand basic science, particularly the laws of thermodynamics, in order to make good decisions

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	The Frontiers Collection
Inhalt:	xxv 593 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 120 farbige Illustr. 593 p. 121 illus. 120 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319305448
ISBN-10:	3319305441
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-30544-8
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ayres, Robert
Auflage:	1st ed. 2016
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG The Frontiers Collection
Maße:	241 x 160 x 39 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert Ayres
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.07.2016
Gewicht:	1,086 kg

Artikel-ID: 103979353