Accounting for growth: the role of physical work

By Robert U. Ayres, Benjamin S. Warr. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping (2020, background): “It is also argued that exergy, which measures the share of energy capable of performing mechanical, chemical, or thermal work provides a more precise measure to study the significance of energy for society and economic development (Ayres and Warr 2005).”
ENERGY REBOUND AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A REVIEW OF THE MAIN ISSUES AND RESEARCH NEEDS (2009, background): “Recent work by Ayres and associates [4,40,45] makes important strides in measuring efficiency changes in terms of exergy and work at point of use, yet it remains difficult to measure aggregate global output as physical work, heating, endothermic change, lighting and produced electricity.”
Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth (2011, background): “This is clearly an issue for further research, with some plausible support for this proposition (Ayres and Warr, 2005; Ayres and van den Bergh, 2005) but no definite proof of a direct link between increases in energy efficiency and economic growth.”
Energy rebound as a potential threat to a low-carbon future: findings from a new exergy-based national-level rebound approach (2017, methodology): “Including U as the energy input has support in the wider economic literature—various researchers including Ayres and Warr [50,76] and Voudouris et al.”
The Future of Oil: Geology Versus Technology (2012, background): “The contributions include Ayres and Warr (2005, 2010), Hall and Klitgaard (2011), Kümmel (2011), and Kümmel et al. (2002), who propose aggregate production functions that are based on concepts from engineering and thermodynamics.”
Sustainability economics: Where do we stand? (2008, background): “More extended treatments of these issues are dealt with in prior publications (Ayres et al., 2003, 2005; Ayres and Warr, 2005; Warr and Ayres, 2006).”
Consumption and the Rebound Effect: An Industrial Ecology Perspective (2005, methodology): “Ayres and Warr (2005) argue that what actually drives growth is physical work, and that physical work can be obtained from energy resources using an efficiency factor. This is similar to Saunders’s notion of energy use. It is in the nature of the model that, as energy productivity increases, the ene”
Energy use and economic development: A comparative analysis of useful work supply in Austria, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US during 100 years of economic growth (2010, background): “Ayres and Warr (2005) concluded that “useful work” delivered to the economy is a more appropriate factor of production to use in representing physical resource flows, than total primary energy (exergy) inputs.2 The inclusion of useful work as a factor of production representing the productive…”
Environmental and climate innovation: Limitations, policies and prices (2013, background): “Although this is broadly considered as an established fact within economics, Ayres and Warr (2005) present empirical evidence that energy is a much more important factor of historical economic growth.”
A General Mathematical Framework for Calculating Systems-Scale Efficiency of Energy Extraction and Conversion: Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and Other Energy Return Ratios (2011, background): “Some have argued that the historical transition to high-ERR resources, such as conventional fossil fuels, has driven much of the improvement in quality of life in recent centuries [23–25].”
The Role of Energy in the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth (2012, background): “Some ecological economists (e.g. Ayres and Warr, 2005, 2009; Cleveland et al., 1984; Hall et al., 2003) have argued that either energy, properly measured, accounts for most apparent productivity growth, or that technological change is real but innovations increase productivity by allowing the use…”