The economic growth engine: how energy and work drive material prosperity

By Paul Ekins. 2010

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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.”
Reducing energy demand: A review of issues, challenges and approaches (2015, background): “It is needed for every economic sector and activity and there is no substitute … [22].”
“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.”
Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand? (2020, background): “Ayres and Warr (2009) argue that “most of the economic growth of our Western civilization in the past 200 years stems from the rebound effect” (p. 233).”
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy (2021, background): “Growth has long been held a core organizational goal and measures of growth are taken as key indicators of successful performance (Ayers & Warr, 2009).”
Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Climate Change (2018, unknown): “Since the 19th century, fossil fuels have been the principal source (Georgescu-Roegen, 1975; Cleveland et al., 1984; Ayres and Warr, 2009).”
Energy expenditure, economic growth, and the minimum EROI of society (2016, background): “Even so, researchers in this field have pursued their efforts and produced very recent syntheses (Hall and Klitgaard, 2012; Ayres and Warr, 2009; Kümmel, 2011).”
Ecological Macroeconomic Models: Assessing Current Developments (2017, background): “Due to the high degree of coupling between resource use and economic activity (Ayres and Warr, 2009; Wiedmann et al., 2015), the result may be a stabilisation (or decline) in GDP, but this is not the goal per se.”
The Role of Energy in the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth (2012, background): “1 Many energy and ecological economists (e.g. Cleveland et al., 1984; Ayres and Warr, 2005, 2009, Hall et al., 2003), geographers (e.g. Smil, 1994), as well as some (e.g. Cipolla, 1962; Wilkinson, 1973; Wrigley, 1988; Allen, 2009) but not all (Landes, 1969; Clark, 2007) economic historians believe…”
The Dynamics of Resource-Based Economic Development: Evidence from Australia and Norway (2013, background): “Recent work by Ayres and Warr (2009) throws doubt on the assumption that there is a lack of innovativeness in resource-based industries.”
Energy, EROI and quality of life (2014, background): “Energy provided by the burning of fossil fuels has fostered the expansion of economic, social and environmental development (Munasinghe, 2002; Ayres and Warr, 2009).”
Research On Degrowth (2018, unknown): “Energy is a vital source of useful work (38); growth has been possible because fossil fuels did things human labor alone could not do.”