The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity

By Robert U. Ayres, Benjamin S. Warr. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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• Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario (2020, background): “Second, while immense improvements in energy efficiency have occurred throughout the industrial revolution, these largely served to boost productivity and enable further growth (Brockway et al., 2017; Sakai et al., 2018; Ayres and Warr, 2010).”
• “Friday off”: Reducing Working Hours in Europe (2013, background): “[4], but if Ayres is ultimately correct in his expectation that we are at the end of cheap energy [33], the ultimate result will remain unclear.”
• Energy rebound as a potential threat to a low-carbon future: findings from a new exergy-based national-level rebound approach (2017, background): “This would follow the advocation of Ayres and Warr [114], who saw energy efficiency (and rebound) as the engine of economic growth.”
• Growth, degrowth and climate change: A scenario analysis (2012, background): “The long-term feasibility of economic growth has been questioned by analysts, such as Ayres and Warr(2009). They emphasize the relationship between economic growth, measured as increases in real GDP, and access to cheap supplies of materials, in particular, fossil fuel sources of energy.”
• Historical energy transitions: Speed, prices and system transformation ☆ (2016, background): “…transitions has blossomed in the last ten years (Gales et al 2007, Geels and Schot 2007, Bartoletto and Rubio 2008, Madureira 2008, Kunnas and Myllyntaus 2009, Allen 2009, Ayres and Warr 2009, Wrigley 2010, Smil 2010, Mitchell 2011, Kander et al. 2013, Grübler and Wilson 2014, and Jones 2014).”
• Productive energy use and economic growth: Energy, physical and human capital relationships (2015, background): “Biophysical economics regards energy as the key input factor in economic production (Ayres and Warr, 2005, 2009; Cleveland et al., 1984; Cook, 1971; Goeller and Weinberg, 1976; Hall et al., 1986, 2001, 2003; Murphy and Hall, 2010).”