Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

by Joseph A. Tainter and Tadeusz W. Patzek

Book Overview

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441976760
• ISBN13: 9781441976765
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"