Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (Antoine Missemer, 2017)

Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

Bibliographic reference

Antoine Missemer, Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (1865-1931) [Economists and the End of Fossil Fuels] (Paris : Garnier, 2017)

Abstract

In Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles, Antoine Missemer explores the different ways by which economists have made fossil fuels an object of economic analysis, in the period that runs from The Coal Question by William Stanley Jevons to Harold Hotelling’s 1931 paper. He is interested in the fear of resource exhaustion and its impact on industrial development, but also reports on the theories that pay attention to the economic activities of fossil fuels producers.