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This chapter seeks to answer a few questions of general interest:

  • Why has energy economics developed as a separate discipline of economics?

  • Why does energy economics cover more than the straightforward application of standard economic methods and models to energy markets?

  • What are the reasons for politicians to have a particular propensity to intervene in energy markets?

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    Employable energy that is capable of performing work is also called exergy .

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Bad Bleiberg, Austria

    Peter Zweifel

  2. E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Aaron Praktiknjo

  3. Department of Energy Systems, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany

    Georg Erdmann

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Zweifel, P., Praktiknjo, A., Erdmann, G. (2017). Introduction. In: Energy Economics. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53022-1_1

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