According to mainstream thinking, efficiency is a potent tool for conservation — a way to live better while using fewer …, efficiency seems to stimulate the consumption of more resources. This paper surveys the evidence for efficiency backfire and … concludes that efficiency is a general tool for catalyzing technological sprawl. …

economic efficiency within a changing technological and social environment. Ethical evaluations of these developments diverge …, yet the view that free labor markets drive to efficiency remains undisputed. This note sets out to criticize, in a non …-technical manner, this efficiency presumption which is based on Adam Smith's theory of wage setting. It is urged that a Smithian wage …

environmental policies that affect prices and energy demand are mainly effective in directing innovation by small specialized firms …

Energy security increasingly becomes an issue in the face of rising worldwide energy demand and dwindling resources …. Threats to energy security are seen in political instabilities of resource exporting countries, decreasing reserves …, geostrategic and geopolitical factors and the structure of the relevant energy markets in terms of market power, monopolies …

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