This paper considers how energy-related external costs change through time. It focuses on one of the key periods in the history of energy. After a period of declining coal prices and soaring consumption which fuelled the Second Industrial Revolution, the nineteenth century British economy was...

Contents: Introduction Roger Fouquet -- Part I. The growth strategy -- 1. Policies for green growth versus policies for no growth: A matter of timing / Richard G. Lipsey -- 2. The limits to green growth / Peter A. Victor and Martin Sers -- 3. Green "agrowth" - the next development stage of rich...