The economics of energy and the production process : an evolutionary approach / Guido Buenstorf.

By: Buenstorf, Guido, 1968-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economicsPublication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2004. Description: xii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 184376461XSubject(s): Energy policy | Economic policy | Power resourcesDDC classification: 333.79 BUE LOC classification: HD9502.A2 | B84 2004Online resources: OCLC

Contents:

1. Introduction: energy is back on the agenda 1 -- 1.1 Power blackouts in the knowledge economy 1 -- 1.2 Three levels of analyzing production 3 -- 1.3 Outline of the argument 8 -- 2. The physical perspective on the economy and its limitations 10 -- 2.1 A brief history of energy in economics 10 -- 2.2 Thermodynamic concepts and economic applications 20 -- 2.3 Open systems thermodynamics 33 -- 2.4 Economic implications of thermodynamic concepts 38 -- 2.5 Conclusions: the need for a more economic approach 43 -- 2.6 A note on terminology 44 -- 3. Production as a sequential process 45 -- 3.1 Activity analysis: abstract models of inputs and outputs 45 -- 3.2 Sequential production in engineering and economics 47 -- 3.3 Property vectors, operations and techniques 59 -- 3.4 From operations to factors of production 65 -- 4. More than heat and light: the services provided by energy use in production 74 -- 4.1 Forms of energy and the factor services provided by them 74 -- 4.2 Regularities in human wants and direct services of energy 78 -- 4.3 Indirect factor services of energy use 82 -- 5. Changing power relations: the long-term development of energy use in production 90 -- 5.1 Qualitative changes in energy use 90 -- 5.2 The macro picture: increasing variety rather than stages of development 103 -- 6. Process innovations in sequential production 109 -- 6.1 Kinds of changes in production operations 109 -- 6.2 Incompatibilities and complementarities of operations 115 -- 6.3 Incompatibility in techniques and modularity in product designs 120 -- 6.4 The broader context: complex systems, decomposability and evolution 123 -- 6.5 Modularity of techniques 127 -- 6.6 Variable and endogenous decomposability 130 -- 7. A closer look at change: three historical examples of energy innovations 135 -- 7.1 The transition from wood to coal 135 -- 7.2 The introduction of the steam engine 144 -- 7.3 The electrification of industrial production 158 -- 8.1 Energy in the production process 170 -- 8.2 Use value and long-term economic development 176 -- 8.3 The production of useful goods: towards a theory 177.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	333.79 BUE 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan	25413
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Buenstorf, Guido, 1968-
Economics of energy and the production process.
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2004
(OCoLC)654719978

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index.

1. Introduction: energy is back on the agenda 1 --
1.1 Power blackouts in the knowledge economy 1 --
1.2 Three levels of analyzing production 3 --
1.3 Outline of the argument 8 --
2. The physical perspective on the economy and its limitations 10 --
2.1 A brief history of energy in economics 10 --
2.2 Thermodynamic concepts and economic applications 20 --
2.3 Open systems thermodynamics 33 --
2.4 Economic implications of thermodynamic concepts 38 --
2.5 Conclusions: the need for a more economic approach 43 --
2.6 A note on terminology 44 --
3. Production as a sequential process 45 --
3.1 Activity analysis: abstract models of inputs and outputs 45 --
3.2 Sequential production in engineering and economics 47 --
3.3 Property vectors, operations and techniques 59 --
3.4 From operations to factors of production 65 --
4. More than heat and light: the services provided by energy use in production 74 --
4.1 Forms of energy and the factor services provided by them 74 --
4.2 Regularities in human wants and direct services of energy 78 --
4.3 Indirect factor services of energy use 82 --
5. Changing power relations: the long-term development of energy use in production 90 --
5.1 Qualitative changes in energy use 90 --
5.2 The macro picture: increasing variety rather than stages of development 103 --
6. Process innovations in sequential production 109 --
6.1 Kinds of changes in production operations 109 --
6.2 Incompatibilities and complementarities of operations 115 --
6.3 Incompatibility in techniques and modularity in product designs 120 --
6.4 The broader context: complex systems, decomposability and evolution 123 --
6.5 Modularity of techniques 127 --
6.6 Variable and endogenous decomposability 130 --
7. A closer look at change: three historical examples of energy innovations 135 --
7.1 The transition from wood to coal 135 --
7.2 The introduction of the steam engine 144 --
7.3 The electrification of industrial production 158 --
8.1 Energy in the production process 170 --
8.2 Use value and long-term economic development 176 --
8.3 The production of useful goods: towards a theory 177.

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