This paper reviews the mainstream, resource economics, and ecological economics models
of growth. A possible synthesis of energy‐based and mainstream models is presented. This …

In the presence of markup differences, externalities, and other social effects, the direction of
innovation can be systematically distorted. I build a simple model of endogenous technology …

It is increasingly evident that the direction of technological change responds to economic
incentives. We review the literature on directed technical change in the context of …

In the late 50s a debate on the Oil depletion has been started which is continuing to the
present day. Campbell largely updated Hubert's model with new reserve resources forecast …

This framing chapter describes the strengths and limitations of the most widely used
concepts and methods in economics, ethics, and other social sciences that are relevant to …

The expansion in the supply of energy services over the last couple of centuries has
reduced the apparent importance of energy in economic growth despite energy being an …

Ecological and biophysical economists and historians of economics consider that availability
of energy inputs has played a key role in driving economic growth in industrialized and …

The relatively new and still amorphous concept of 'green growth'can be understood as a call
for balancing longer-term investments in sustaining environmental wealth with nearer-term …

We develop a quantitative macroeconomic theory of input-saving technical change to
analyze how markets economize on scarce natural resources, with an application to fossil …

This is a much needed book. It does not only fill an important research gap, but essentially
opens up a vast field for (macro-) economic analysis and theory. Steffen Lange most …