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Economic growth became dependent on a steady flow of foreign capital to finance domestic consumption and flashy investments in housing, roads, bridges, and airports.
For example, forty years ago, when fear of nuclear proliferation was new, my teacher and friend Vassili Leontief, who invented the macroeconomic table of inter-industrial flows, argued that the best indicator of an illegal arms program is massive electricity consumption.
With fuel prices so low, what can be done to change consumption patterns?
Even if the world rapidly decarbonizes, oil consumption will remain high enough for their resources to be worth extracting.
By 2050, global food production will have to increase by 60% to meet demand from a growing world population with changing consumption habits.
Kaczynski clearly sees an opportunity to put on a show for domestic consumption, by using Trump’s visit to demonstrate that Poland is a regional leader, rather than a black sheep.
With Big Tobacco out of the picture, and armed with evidence of the real effects of tobacco consumption, health advocates were finally able to compel their governments to act.
Take a site I just visited this morning, for Fitbit, a self-monitoring tool that lets you measure your physical motion, and by implication your exercise, calorie consumption, sleep time, and other factors.
Oil exporters could, in turn, promise to increase domestic consumption expenditure, which would boost imports.
African governments could begin by converting the $20 billion they now spend subsidizing energy consumption into investments in connecting low-income households to power.
This would lead to approximately three gigawatts of capacity by 2020, which equates to 1 GW of continuous production – less than 2% of 2007 consumption.
Whether Kuroda’s assault will bolster domestic consumption and investment remains to be seen.
Unfortunately, rates of breastfeeding and breast-milk consumption are well below desired levels.
Buildings last for decades, so decisions made today have a long-term impact on our energy consumption.
Asia’s share of global energy consumption has doubled in the past 30 years, and its buildings’ share of energy use is growing at similar rates, with China and India alone constructing more than half of all the world’s new floor space.
The net result of a series of small changes would be a dramatic reduction in energy consumption.
It would be preferable for China to find a way to substitute Chinese for US private consumption demand, but the system seems unable to move quickly in this direction.
So a shift to greater domestic consumption was inevitable anyway.
I hope so, but I would be more convinced by a plan tilted more toward domestic private consumption, health, and education than to one based on the same growth strategy of the past 30 years.
With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.
So far, most discussions in Europe regarding how to reduce Russian energy imports – which account for 34% of the EU’s gas consumption – have focused on the United States, where the rapid development of shale reserves has made a huge supply of gas available for export.
Here, too, the US, where higher house prices stimulate consumption, is a misleading example for Europe.
A housing boom in a nation of renters might actually lead to lower aggregate consumption.
American democracy’s emphasis on short time horizons is costly, with tax cuts and increased welfare benefits giving rise to chronic fiscal deficits, with future generations forced to foot the bill for years of excessive consumption.
The longstanding stagnation in wages for unskilled labor was attributed to low-cost, labor-intensive imports, ignoring the corollary that Western workers’ consumption of labor-intensive Asian goods offset the effect on real wages.
Many oil-producing countries, in particular, have succeeded in converting their natural wealth into physical capital and consumption; but they have failed to build the human capital that can sustain their economies in the future.
Water consumption rose nine-fold and energy use thirteen-fold.
These spectacles were intended for national consumption, but the Americans deeply resented them.
After all, consuming a ton of fossil fuel, but capturing and storing the emissions, is very different from shifting or delaying its consumption.
There are strong parallels to what happened in the United States in the past few years: many families felt crushed by their debts, so household consumption fell and has yet to recover.
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