Après être devenues les personnes les plus riches de tous les temps, les revenus corrigés selon l'inflation ont depuis 2009 rétréci pour la plupart des ménages français, en dépit de nombreuses tentatives de ramener la croissance.
De même, les perspectives pour les jeunes sont moins favorables; ils ont du mal à trouver des emplois correspondant à leurs études, et d'établir une bonne vie.
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Cover Story
Pour la première fois en 250 ans d’expansion, l'énergie et les ressources naturelles sont devenues des facteurs limitants. En tirer profit est de plus en plus difficile, ce qui rend difficile de faire croitre l'économie.
Cela est difficile à saisir pour nous tous, car nos cerveaux fonctionnent mieux quand ils extrapolent les expériences passées. Si cela échoue, nous sommes déboussolés, et en colère.
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After 10 years of mostly scientific work on understanding our human ecosystem, energy&stuff is
IIER
's first public outreach project. Given the very negative societal dynamics observed around the world, with hate and blame on the rise, we consider it relevant to instill a sense of reality into the discussion, hopefully supporting a different and more constructive dialogue moving forward.
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Outsourcing - how some countries became (seemingly) efficient
Many
advanced economies
seem to have become much more energy- and resource-efficient during the past decades, emitting far less greenhouse gases per unit of economic output. Unfortunately, the largest part of those improvements exist only on paper, as globalization and the related de-industrialization have driven the "heavy lifting" elsewhere.
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Cobb-Douglas, a formula and a principle with limits
The drivers of most economic planning, labor, capital and their productivity, are at the core of the concept described by the Cobb-Douglas production function. Unfortunately, this "unlimited" view has hard limits in energy and resource availability that didn't matter during the 20th century.
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Productivity, its components, and its limits
Labor and capital productivity growth was seen as the key driver of growth during the past 250 years. However, we didn't get more productive based on our ingenuity alone, the key drivers were increased energy and resource use with low energy and resource productivity.
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