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1、Energy Policy 28 (2000) 439}449A view from the macro side: rebound, back"re, andKhazzoom}BrookesHarry D. Saunders*Managing Director, Decision Processes Incorporated 2308 Saddleback Drive, Danville, CA 94506-3118, USAAbstractThis paper attempts to delineate a few key insights extracted from theo
2、retical macroeconomic considerations of the rebound issue.The goal has been to reduce these thoughts to a clear set of assertions that, if true, would be useful points of reference in the ongoingdiscussion despite their non-empirical nature.2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.Keyword
3、s: Rebound; Conservation; Growth theory1. Introductionsumptions so readily yield predictions of large reboundand even back"re.Macroeconomic theory has its perils as well as itspower. It happens to be relatively easy to "nd a theoret-ical basis for rebound and even back"re;as in theRather than
4、 dismissing neoclassical growth theory, thebetter solution is to understand what it is telling us, howit can go wrong and why, where it is useful and where not,sciences, however, economic theory must ultimately bowand how it can be adapted to generate reliable insightsto the exacting master of
5、 real-world evidence. A numberconsistent with empirical evidence. As a beginning, weof recent empirical studies have begun to establish a verystrong body of evidence that point to rebound e!ectsbeing relatively small * on the order of 5}10% (see fordemonstrate in this paper that powerful insi
6、ghts are to befound by careful application of top-down theoreticalmacroeconomic models of the neoclassical growth var-example Schipper and Grubb, 1998; Greening andiety.Greene, 1998). These are high-quality, compelling studiesThe pro!ered insights are these:that cannot be dismissed.This creat
7、es a di$culty for both theoreticians and1. Rebound has a sound theoretical basis; however, itsempiricists. Many of the most important rebound-relatedmagnitude and importance are an empirical ques-policy questions, such as global