Preface
This book is about resources and welfare, but there is a reason that the particular resource energy is singled out from the remainder. During the 1970s, energy was the asset that rose from oblivion to become a topic of vivid social debate, including discussions on the various merits of fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy supplies, the efficiency of each step in our energy conversion, and the environmental impacts of energy use, from air pollution to global warming. Also today, the transparency of energy issues, relative to many other issues in social and political debate, makes them ideal as points of departure for exploring issues of policy (that have all too long been left to professional politicians) and economic development (often ...
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