Economic Growth Engine
by Robert U. Ayres, Benjamin Warr · first published 2009
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…steam engine, of which models were improved on from the 1600s and onwards, wonders arose. Perhaps this book on economic growth would be of interest on the importance of energy for economic growth: The Economic Growth Engine, by Ayres and Warr. Excerpt at https://books.google.no/books/about/The_Economic_Growth_Engi...
on “Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?” ↗…overwhelming self-sufficiency in resources, most especially energy. See Vaclav Smil, Energy in World History, Manfred Weissenbacher, Sources of Power: How energy forges human history, or Robert Ayres, The Economic Growth Engine: How energy and work drive material prosperity. http://www.worldcat.org/title/energy-in-world-history/oclc/3... http://www.worldcat.org/title/sources-of-power-how-energy-fo... http://www.worldcat.org/title/economic-growth-engine-how-ene...
on “Is the Semi-Permanent “Gunpowder Empire” Historical Scenario Plausible?” ↗The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity by Ayers and Warr Describes the economy in thermodynamic terms, as a materials processing machine, in contrast with neoclassical models of abstract "factors…
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