Efforts to assess the possibilities for decoupling economic growth from resource use and
negative environmental impacts have examined their historical relationship, with varying …

Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental
sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent …

Harold Hotelling's 1931 contribution is known for providing a basic principle—the Hotelling
rule—to the economics of non‐renewable resources. Nearly 90 years later, empirical tests …

This article focuses on modelling the structure of the Italian economy and its evolution from
2015 to 2019 using Physical Input-Output tables to understand its functioning in terms of …

Geopolitical instability and climate change are about to bring about large-scale energy
reconfigurations. Recent discoveries of fossil fuel potential echo important historical …

In the 1970s, employees at the RAND Corporation turned their expertise in rational decision
making toward the problem of energy demand. In surveying existing energy demand …

Harold Hotelling's 1931 article on the economics of exhaustible resources is considered
groundbreaking in the history of nonrenewable resource analysis. Hotelling's innovation has …

Innovation studies scholars use the concept of 'spillovers' to explain how ideas and people
move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of …

Energy efficiency can be considered as a central pillar of global warming mitigation, with
important co-benefits, including productivity gains, resource conservation or national …

Taking a long-run historical perspective, we analyze how debates about energy efficiency
have evolved in the economic literature since the mid-19th century. We distinguish three …