Power to the People (eBook)

Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries

Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, Paul Warde (Autoren)

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2014
472 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4888-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Astrid Kander is professor of economic history at Lund University. Paolo Malanima is director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies at the National Research Council in Italy. Paul Warde is reader in early modern history at the University of East Anglia and research associate at the Centre for History and Economics, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

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Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world. The Second Industrial Revolution continued this energy expansion and social transformation through the use of oil and electricity, but after 1970 Europe entered a new stage in which energy consumption has stabilized. This book challenges the view that the outsourcing of heavy industry overseas is the cause, arguing that a Third Industrial Revolution driven by new information and communication technologies has played a major stabilizing role. Power to the People offers new perspectives on the challenges posed today by climate change and peak oil, demonstrating that although the path of modern economic development has vastly increased our energy use, it has not been a story of ever-rising and continuous consumption. The book sheds light on the often lengthy and complex changes needed for new energy systems to emerge, the role of energy resources in economic growth, and the importance of energy efficiency in promoting growth and reducing future energy demand.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Availability • Calculation • Capital • Capital Cost • Capital deepening • Carbon Dioxide Emissions • charcoal • Chemical Industry • Climate • climate change • coal • Coal Mining • Combustion • Commodity • Comparative Advantage • cooking • Current Price • developed country • development blocks • Economic Development • Economic Efficiency • Economic Growth • Economic History • Economics • Economic Structure • economy • Elasticity of substitution • electricity • Electricity Generation • electrification • Emerging Technologies • Energy • Energy carrier • energy conservation • Energy Consumption • Energy Demand • Energy development • Energy economy • energy efficiency • energy expansion • Energy industry • Energy Intensity • energy productivity • Energy Regime • energy sources • Energy Supply • Energy Transition • Energy transitions • Engineering • Europe • European Economy • Factors of Production • firewood • fodder • Food consumption • Fossil fuel • Fossil Fuels • fuel • Fuel Efficiency • fuels • Gasoline • GDP • global warming • Growth Accounting • heavy industry • Hectare • hydropower • income • industrial age • Industrial growth • industrialisation • industrial production • Industrial Revolution • Industry • Inflation • Information Technology • Infrastructure • Innovation • Internal Combustion Engine • Investment • iron • Isoquant • Jevons paradox • Labor • Land • macro-innovation • Manufacturing • Manufacturing Industry • market suction • market widening • Measures of national income and output • Mechanization • Metallurgy • Mining • Natural gas • natural resource • non-organic energy sources • nuclear energy • Nuclear power • Oil • organic economy • organic energy sources • Peak oil • Peat • percentage • Petroleum • pollution • Population • Population Growth • Power • Price index • price of oil • Primary sector of the economy • Productivity • Quantity • raw material • Relative price • renewable energy • Requirement • saving • Scarcity • Secondary sector of the economy • second industrial revolution • Service economy • shortage • smelting • steam engine • steam power • steamship • Supply (economics) • Technology • Thermal efficiency • thermal energy • thermodynamic efficiency • The Third Industrial Revolution (book) • Total Factor Productivity • Transport • urbanization • Utilization • Vegetable • Western Europe • Wind Power • World Economy • World energy consumption • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4888-1 / 1400848881
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4888-1 / 9781400848881