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Twitter increased its turnover by 110 % between 2013 and 2014. Facebook revenue for 2014 was $12.47 billion, marking an increase of 58 % in only a year.
There is good reason to doubt that past GDP growth per capita is entirely explained by capital accumulation or non-specific knowledge accumulation, as most growth theorists seem to believe […] it is obvious that neither labor nor capital can function without inputs of energy .
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Bithas, K., Kalimeris, P. (2016). Introduction. In: Revisiting the Energy-Development Link. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20732-2_1
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