Energy and the Financial System What Every Economist, Financial Analyst, and Investor Needs to Know /

The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap energy made available through the exploitation of fossil fuels. As a result, its viability is completely dependent upon the continuation of that growt...

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Main Author: Boyd, Roger. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Energy Analysis,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04238-1
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Nature of the Problem
  • Chapter 2. It takes Energy to get Energy
  • Chapter 3. It’s the flow stupid!
  • Chapter 4. A Financial System Addicted to Exponential Growth
  • Chapter 5. So What Can I Do?
  • Index.