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Energy use, population and growth, 1800-1970

Author

  • Maria Fröling

Summary, in English

In this paper, the role of energy use is incorporated into unified growth theory. The paper presents some interesting evidence about the evolution of energy in the transition from stagnation to growth, and it subsequently develops a growth model where the observed increase in conversion efficiency in the coal energy sector is explicitly modelled and calibrated to existing data over the period 1800–1970. The quantitative analysis sheds light on the impact of energy use on the transition from stagnation to growth.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

1133-1163

Publication/Series

Journal of Population Economics

Volume

24

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Applied Mechanics

Keywords

  • Unified growth theory
  • coal
  • biomass

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0933-1433