The Completion of the Oil Era: The Economic Impact (Energy Policies, Politics and Prices)

This book is divided into seven chapters, an annex and conclusions and they all aim towards the following objectives: to investigate how much conventional and non-conventional oil is left in the world in quantitative terms, then examine all the different alternate energy sources and find out their different development stages; inform economist so they too can help out, and then bring together the different economic growth scenarios to find out, by considering world demand; how much oil is left in the world in qualitative terms, that is to say, how much time can we economists/politicians can buy the scientists for their development of the transition paths towards renewable energy sources with a minimum of economic and social repercussion. In the last chapter multilateral negotiating insights is provided through game theory. In the conclusions a long standing economic equation is re-written in energy terms, a blue prints scenario is unveiled and a strategy is proposed to accomplish this all important objective.