This third edition of the book stems from work by the author published in Energy Economics, the International Journal … of Exergy and follow-up working papers. Topics covered include the gas laws, the distribution of income, first and second … maximisation and the cycle, empirical analysis of world energy resources and climate change as factors affecting economic output …

capital, labour, resource and waste stocks, with specific reference to energy, and is backed up analysis of data of world … energy resources and climate change. The paper conculdes that both energy resource availability and climate change will have …

derived from natural resource energy inputs into an augmented production function. To do this, we estimate the long-term (1900 …-2000) trends in resource exergy supply and conversion to useful work in the United Kingdom. The exergy resources considered … (including biomass). All flows of exergy were allocated to an end use such as providing heat, light, transport, human and animal …

public infrastructure for Energy, Telecommunications and Transport sectors in Colombia. Performance is evaluated through the … process with performance of the infrastructure sub-sectors in which they have been applied. Three planning characteristics are … transformation of series of indicators on financial, physical and operational fields, into an Annual Average Performance (AAP). The …

specific energy consumption of the systemic components arriving at estimates of fluxes and energy costs. This study analyses … comparatively the main thermoeconomic-based approaches to verify the feasibility of the "energy value" as an appraisal criterion of …

-- 11. Energetics -- 12. Evolutionary theory and genetics -- 13. Entropy, exergy, information and complexity -- 14. The … energy, and that energy is required (consumed) for any material transformation, or information transmission. The labor theory … dissipating a flux of exergy. Economists frequently emphasize the equilibrium assumption, introduced originally by Leon Walras in …

This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …

Vorständen der DAX100-Gesellschaften über den Zeitraum von 1994 bis 2001. Neben den Turnover-Performance-Beziehungen wird die … the systematic relationship between company performance and turnover in the management boards of the DAX100 companies over … the period from 1994 to 2001. In addition to the turnover performance relationships, the reactions of the capital market …