In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA's newly proposed regulations for carbon dioxide (CO2) on existing U.S. coal-fired power plants using nonparametric methods on a sample of 144 electricity generating units. Moreover, we develop an approach for evaluating the...

Energy conversion in the production of goods and services, and the resulting emissions associated with entropy production, have not yet been taken into account by the mainstream theory of economic growth. Novel econometric analyses, however, have revealed energy as a production factor whose...

Eine harsche Kritik der westlichen Ökonomie, die im Zeichen der Liberalisierung und Deregulierung zu einer "Schurkenwirtschaft" mutiert sei, so die renommierte Journalistin und Expertin auf dem Gebiet der "Schattenwirtschaft" (vgl. L. Napoleoni "Die Ökonomie des Terrors", BA 6/04). Der Fall...