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In this chapter, we first explain what energy economics is and what energy and climate policy mean. We then describe the advantages of energy for society, and the current energy systems and their environmental and economic problems. At the end of the chapter, we discuss the energy transition and the characteristics of the energy systems once the transition has taken place. In the discussions in this chapter, we make note of developing countries.
In the framework of a critical illustration of the contemporary history of economics, this chapter considers applied economics, econometrics, input–output analysis, descriptive statistics and statistical indicators, the theory of market regulation, market creation and auctions, the variegated history of energy economics from the Hotelling theorem to trilateral oligopoly and the Malthusian Club of Rome thesis of resource scarcity, the different approaches to environmental economics.
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