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It was founded in 1980 to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning energy, economics and related topics. For economists, energy economics is one of three subdisciplines which, taken. Resources for the future, discussion paper 0301 2003. The measures of resource quality and quantity are unique to each resource, but for each of the. The energy journal is the official quarterly journal of the international association for energy economics.
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