Publisher Summary The chapter presents a discussion on the demand for labor in the long
run, which is important to labor economists for a variety of reasons. As in the market for a …

CONCEPTUAL, ETHICAL AND PARADIGMATIC ISSUES 7 2.1 Definitions, assumptions,
methodology 7 2.2 The ethics of sustainable development 13 2.2. 1 Reasons for committing …

This paper provides the first meta‐analysis of the interfuel substitutability literature. The
sample includes 47 studies of interfuel substitution in the industrial sector, in manufacturing …

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change obliges the industrialized countries to initiate
the international effort of abating anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If such …

The estimation of Hicks-Allen substitution elasticities among energy and nonenergy inputs in
manufacturing processes has been the subject of several recent econometric studies …

This book presents the major themes of the economic literature on natural resources and the
environment. It is designed to bring the reader, in part with the aid of a unified model of …

In the debate about sustainable development, the key question is whether natural capital
can be substituted by man-made capital. Proponents of weak sustainability maintain that …

In macroeconomic models, the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy
inputs within the energy aggregate is a central parameter in assessing the necessary …

Most models of the industrial demand for energy, capital, and other factor inputs can be
grouped into two categories. The first is static models that consistently account for …

Energy economists have identified two salient features of data on energy use and energy
prices: In time-series data, energy use does not change much with energy price …