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

• Main Author: Boyd, Roger. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Energy,
• Subjects: Finance.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Fossil fuels.; Energy industries.; Economic growth.; Environmental economics.; Finance, general.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Economics.; Economic Growth.; Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture).; Environmental Economics.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Nature of the Problem
• Chapter 2. It takes Energy to get Energy
• Chapter 3. ItỚ"s the flow stupid!
• Chapter 4. A Financial System Addicted to Exponential Growth
• Chapter 5. So What Can I Do?
• Index.