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- catalog contributor b13215625.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 199 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Economics of energy and the production process.".
- catalog identifier "184376461X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Economics of energy and the production process.".
- catalog isPartOf "New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar,".
- catalog relation "Economics of energy and the production process.".
- catalog subject "333.79 22".
- catalog subject "Economic policy.".
- catalog subject "Energy policy.".
- catalog subject "HD9502.A2 B84 2004".
- catalog subject "Power resources.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The economics of energy and the production process : an evolutionary approach / Guido Buenstorf.".
- catalog type "text".