
This piece continues from A Most Ridiculous World: The Politicization of Energy from yesterday. Feeding the Grown and the Growing Stern, Burke and Bruns (2016)7 concluded in their analysis that access to electricity is not sufficient for economic growth but that electricity use and GDP have a positive relationship. Simply providing the availability of a resource does not dictate advancement, it is the use that results in advancement. Common sense. “As a result, energy is an essential factor of production Read more …