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Fix, Blair - In: PLoS ONE 12 (2017) 2, pp. 1-22

. This paper offers a new approach that focuses on energy consumption. A systematic relation exists between institution size … and energy consumption per capita: as energy consumption increases, institutions become larger. I hypothesize that this … stochastic model can be used to link energy consumption with firm dynamics. …

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Putting Power Back Into Growth Theory

Fix, Blair - 2014

Neoclassical growth theory assumes that economic growth is an atomistic process in which changes in distribution play no role. Unfortunately, when this assumption is tested against real-world evidence, it is systematically violated. This paper argues that a reality-based growth theory must...

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Energy and Institution Size

Fix, Blair - 2016

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Putting Power Back Into Growth Theory

Fix, Blair - In: Review of Capital as Power 1 (2015) 2, pp. 1-37

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Ecological Limits and Hierarchical Power

Fix, Blair; Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019

Nowadays, it is commonplace to claim that the economy overuses our limited material and energy resources and that this …

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Energy, Hierarchy and the Origin of Inequality

Fix, Blair - In: PLoS ONE 14 (2019) 4, April, pp. 1-32

energy, hierarchy, and inequality and creates a hindcast of the origin of inequality. The results are broadly consistent with …

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Human Activity, Energy & Money in the Unlted States: Connecting the Biophysical Economy with its Pecuniary Image

Fix, Blair - 2013

monetary image? After reviewing and critiquing land, labour, utlitarian, and energy theories of value, this paper abandons the … that looks for linkages between monetary indicators, the inter-sectoral movement of human activity, and increases in energy …

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Can the world get along without natural resources?

Fix, Blair - 2020

In the distant future, aliens come to Earth. They find a planet devoid of life. Looking closer, the aliens see that life on Earth was once abundant, but was wiped out by a mass extinction. Curiously, this event was driven not by geological disaster, but by one of the extinct species itself. In...

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Living the Good Life in a Non-Growth World. Investigating the Role of Hierarchy

Fix, Blair - 2021

hierarchy. As societies consume more energy, they tend to become more hierarchical. At the same time, the growth of hierarchy … between energy, hierarchy and inequality. I then speculate about what it implies for achieving a sustainable and equitable …

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Economic Development and the Death of the Free Market

Fix, Blair - In: Evolutionary and Institutional Economic Review (2021) Latest Articles, pp. --

According to neoclassical economics, the most efficient way to organize human activity is to use the free market. By stoking self interest, the theory claims, individuals can benefit society. This idea, however, conflicts with the evolutionary theory of multilevel selection, which proposes that...

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