Table of Contents

Modern agriculture - a source of energy?; the history of agriculture energetics - Podolinsky; Eduard Sacher's formulation of Podolinsky's principle; Rudolf Clausius - on the energy stocks in nature; Patrick Geddes' critique of economics; the carrying capacity of the earth, according to Pfaundler; Henry Adam's law of acceleration in the use of energy; Soddy's critique of the theory of economic growth; Lancelot Hogben vs. Hayek; methodological individualism and intergenerational allocation; Max Weber's chrematistic critique of Wilhelm Ostwald; ecological utopianism - popper lynkeus and ballod-atlanticus; the history of the future; political epilogue.