Energy and Wealth Production: An Historical Perspective

摘要: There are many scientists from different disciplines who have thought deeply about the long-term relation of humans and wealth production. Most concluded that best general way to think how societies evolved over time is perspective surplus energy. To chemists Frederick Soddy William Ostwald, anthropologist Leslie White, archeologist historian Joseph Tainter, sociologist Fred Cottrell, John Perlin, systems ecologist Howard T. Odum, economist Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen, energy scientist Vaclav Smil, a number others in these other disciplines, human history, including contemporary events, essentially exploiting technologies do so. This not taught our schools role missing dominant books teaching history. Instead history usually seen terms generals, politicians, personalities.