The digitalisation, dematerialisation and decarbonisation of the global economy in historical perspective: the relationship between energy and information since 1850
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Keywords
decarbonization; digitalization; energy intensity; global economy; historical; information and communication technologies (ICT); ES/R009708/1; EP/R035288/1; UKRI fund;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2024-01-22 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2024-01-22 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2024-01-22 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ICT-2024-01-22 (Information and Communication Technologies)
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