La reindustrialización necesaria

(Revista Economistas, Nº 144, año 2015)

Driven by demand

how energy gets its power

Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact of energy decisions. Discussions about energy often neglect important historical lessons about previous energy transformations and provide inadequate consideration of context - Driven ...

Fuels paradise

seeking energy security in Europe, Japan, and the United States

In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies - Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States - have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s ...

Latin American upstream oil and gas

a practical guide to the Law and regulation

This volume analyses the upstream oil and gas regulations of the most relevant Latin American countries. The book is divided into two sections. The first provides an outlook of the oil and gas laws and regulations and the key concerns in the most significant jurisdictions ...

Subterranean estates

life worlds of oil and gas

The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of ...

Energy, economic growth, and geopolitical futures

eight long-range scenarios

This book presents eight varied scenarios of possible global futures, emphasizing the interconnectedness of three drivers of change: energy prices, economic growth, and geopolitics. Other published global future scenarios focus on only one of these factors, viewing, for example, economic growth as unaffected by energy ...

The secret world of oil

The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization...But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting- ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden ...

Energy and economic theory

This book is an up-to-date primer covering the most important subjects in energy economics, with particular attention paid to oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy, and without an excessive amount of mathematics. The first three survey chapters constitute an introductory (and mostly non-technical) short course ...

The great transition

shifting from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy

As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with ...

Robots

La era de los robots al servicio del ser humano ha llegado. Van a ser parte de nuestra vida cotidiana: en casa, en el trabajo, en la calle, e incluso van a formar parte de nuestro propio cuerpo. Pero ¿están los robots preparados para formar ...

Public sector entrepreneurship

U.S. technology and innovation policy

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of uncertainty. Public Sector ...

Market madness

a century of oil panics, crises, and crashes

Stock market booms are cause for celebration. But when oil prices soar because supplies are failing to keep up with demand, the response is nearly always apocalyptic. Predictions of the end of oil can create anxiety on Wall Street and in Washington, stoking fears that ...

Activos intangibles

una inversión necesaria para el crecimiento económico en España

Este libro analiza el impacto que las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC) están teniendo en el desarrollo de la denominada economía del conocimiento, iniciada en la década de los noventa. En ella, las actividades basadas en el conocimiento, que constituyen su capital ...

Oil for food

the global food crisis and the Middle East

In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008, Middle Eastern oil producers have announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East ...

The energy world is flat

opportunities from the end of peak oil

A stronger, more informed approach to the energy markets The Energy World Is Flat provides a forward-lookinganalysis of the energy markets and addresses the implications oftheir rapid transformation. Written by acknowledged expert DanielLacalle, who is actively engaged with energy portfolios in thefinancial space, this book ...

The dynamics of broadbands markets in Europe

realizing the 2020 digital agenda

The European Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe sets the targets for broadband development by 2020, yet current broadband market outcomes vary widely amongst the EU Member States and the objectives seem challenging for many. In this book, a group of in-country experts follows a ...

Innovación y sostenibilidad energética

simposio Empresarial Internacional 20174

Esta obra contiene las ponencias presentadas en el II Simposio Empresarial Internacional de la Fundación para la Sostenibilidad Energética y Ambiental (FUNSEAM), celebrado el 27 de enero de 2014 en Barcelona. Un total de 24 aportaciones -en versiones preparadas expresamente para ser aquí publicadas- que ...

Institutions, innovation, and industrialization

essays in economic history and development

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr-arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation-these wide-ranging essays address a host of core economic questions ...

Risky rewards

how company bonuses affect safety

Financial incentives have long been used to try to influence professional values and practices. Recent events including the global financial crisis and the BP Texas City refinery disaster have been linked to such incentives, with commentators calling for a critical look at these systems given ...

Alta tensión

por un nuevo modelo energético sostenible, democrático y ciudadano

Las espurias ramificaciones del actual modelo energético tienen implicaciones tan profundas que no hay lugar del mundo, sociedad o sector que se libre de su influencia. En el control geoestratégico de los recursos energéticos se encuentra la causa de las principales violaciones de derechos humanos ...