RECESSIONARY TRENDS IN GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION
The recent economic events connected with crisis growth in 2015 call for deeper systemic analysis of the world economy. Global economic crises are the consequences of numerous factors of different nature and influence. This article gives an assessment of these factors. Furthermore, the authors present a new energy-based theory of economy founded on fundamental laws. The proposed energy-based theory of economy provides the required specificity and precision of evaluation of economic parameters and confutes the common economists' opinion that economics will never be like physics. This study displays a complex system with an abundance of intrasystem and system-wide interrelations representing the most important mechanisms running at various scales in the internal systems. Finally, the article gives a forecast of population size and energy consumption in developing countries, and further development of the world crisis.