This thesis employs an international comparative perspective to empirically analyse the Czech energy transition between 1830 and 2010. It addresses the utilization of energy in shaping modern economic growth through structural and technological change and the implications of those changes on...

"This book covers issues which are broadly related to economic growth and sustainability in an era of global hyper competition and disruptive political events such as the recent Brexit vote in the United Kingdom. More specifically, it combines issues of economic growth and development and one of...