Funds, Flows and Time: An Alternative Approach to the Microeconomic Analysis of Productive Activities - Hardcover

Mir-Artigues, Pere; Gonzalez-Calvet, Josep

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540712909 ISBN 13: 9783540712909

Verlag: Springer, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The subject of this book is production, which is an important and extensive field in economic science. In fact, production, distribution and consump­ tion were long considered the three federated kingdoms which together formed the great empire of the economy. According to other slightly dif­ ferent traditions, production also held pride of place, specifically as a basic link in the long chain of social reproduction. Today, whatever the theoreti­ cal approach, production is a fundamental requirement for human survival. This was not, however, always the case. For much of the history of man­ kind hominids were hunter, scavenger and gatherers, with very little con­ trol over their environment, and extremely little in the way of artefacts with which to work. However, since the Neolithic revolution, productive processes have constituted an essential mechanism, providing human soci­ ety with goods and services to satisfy its needs and cravings. A simple, yet pertinent, characterisation of the production process con­ ceives it as the transformation of a conglomerate of factors into a given number of products within a specific period of time. Refining this defini­ tion a little further, the said factors may be broken down into different categories: natural resources, means of production (covering two species: working capital and fixed assets) and the different forms of specific work.

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Pere Mir-Artigues and Pablo del Río have a 20-year experience in the economics and policy of renewable energy. Pablo del Río made a postdoctoral research stay on renewable energy support schemes at Riso National Laboratory, System Analysis Department in Denmark. Since 1999, he has actively participated in 6 European-funded projects on renewable energy promotion in the EU. He has more than 80 international publications in world-class journals. More than half of these publications are devoted to renewable energy, 5 of which are with Professor Pere Mir-Artigues. Both authors have recently published a report on solar PV electricity policy in Spain for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Geneva). Pere Mir-Artigues made a recent stay (in 2013) at the Electricity Policy Research Group (Cambridge University). He has also experience in the public management of renewable electricity projects.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3540712909
• ISBN 13: 9783540712909
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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