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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America. Yet political economy, the science of wealth born of the First Industrial Revolution, is devoid of energy, focusing instead on machinery or capital. According to basic mechanics, tools per se are not productive, as they are not source of energy. This book uses basic mechanics and thermodynamics t… More >>
Energy and the Rise and Fall of Political Economy: 2nd Edition
Tags: 19th century, 20th century, industrial revolution, industrial revolutions, mechanics tools, political economy, rise and fall, source of energy, steam power, thermodynamics