Kander / Malanima / Warde Power to the People

Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4888-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 46, 472 Seiten

Reihe: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kander, Astrid

Malanima, Paolo

Warde, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

CHAPTER ONE
Introduction 1

CHAPTER TWO Definitions and Concepts 17

PART I Pre-Industrial Economies Paolo Malanima 35

CHAPTER THREE Traditional Sources 37

1. Energy in Premodern Societies

2. Organic Sources and Agricultures

3. Non-organic Sources

4. Seven Long-run Propositions

5. Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR Constraints and Dynamics 81

1. Population and Climate

2. Energy Scarcity

3. Saving Land

4. Saving Labor

5. Conclusion

PART II The First Industrial Revolution Paul Warde 129

CHAPTER FIVE A Modern Energy Regime 131

1. The Take-off of Coal

2. Traditional Sources: Rise but Relative Decline

3. Conclusion

CHAPTER SIX The Coal Development Block 159

1. The Core Innovations

2. The Growth Dynamics of the Coal Development Block

3. The Transport Revolution

CHAPTER SEVEN Energy and Industrial Growth 209

1. Coal and Growth

2. Seven Long-run Propositions

3. Energy Intensity and Economic Structure

4. Conclusion

PART III The Second and Third Industrial Revolutions Astrid Kander 249

CHAPTER EIGHT Energy Transitions in the Twentieth Century 251

1. The Rise of Oil and Electricity

2. Old and New in Energy Regimes

3. Conclusion

CHAPTER NINE Major Development Blocks in the Twentieth Century and Their Impacts on Energy 287

1. The ICE-Oil Block

2. The Electricity Block

3. The ICT Development Block

4. Conclusion

CHAPTER TEN The Role of Energy in Twentieth-Century Economic Growth 333

1. Development Blocks and GDP

2. Seven Long-run Propositions

3. Energy Intensity and Economic Structure

4. Conclusion

CHAPTER ELEVEN Summary and Implications for the Future 366

1. Summing Up the Book

2.Thinking about the Future

3. Some Remarks about the Future

APPENDIXES

A. The Role of Energy in Growth Accounting 387

B. Decomposing Energy Intensity 1870-1970 395

C. The Impact from the Service Transition on Energy Intensity 402

D. Biased Technical Development 411

References 415

Index 451

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Kander is professor of economic history at Lund University. Paolo Malanima is director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies at the National Research Council in Italy. Paul Warde is reader in early modern history at the University of East Anglia and research associate at the Centre for History and Economics, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.