Christophe Goupil, Pro­fes­sor of physics, Uni­ver­sité de Paris, Lab­o­ra­toire Inter­dis­ci­plinaire des Ener­gies de Demain (LIED, CNRS UMR 8236).

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Assert­ing that the ques­tion of ener­gy is cen­tral to the future of our soci­ety is obvi­ous to all those who note the strong link between GDP and ener­gy con­sump­tion. We can decide to deny this fact but then we have to de-cen­tralise the ener­gy of the phys­i­cal world and turn it into a pure­ly finan­cial quan­ti­ty. This is not the objec­tive of this course. In its orig­i­nal def­i­n­i­tion, ener­gy is the cur­ren­cy that makes it pos­si­ble to account for the trans­for­ma­tions of mat­ter. In this course, fol­low­ing this def­i­n­i­tion, you will be pro­posed to explore the con­cept of ener­gy, both in its his­tor­i­cal devel­op­ment and in its dis­ci­pli­nary devel­op­ments, par­tic­u­lar­ly in physics, biol­o­gy and economics.

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Mario Giampi­etro, Kozo Mayu­mi, et al.: The Meta­bol­ic Pat­tern of Soci­eties: Where Econ­o­mists Fall Short, 2011.

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