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The Power Brokers : The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry.

Lambert, Jeremiah D.

The Power Brokers : The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (395 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Samuel Insull: Architect and Prime Mover of the Electric Utility Business in the United States -- 2 David Lilienthal and the Era of Public Power -- 3 Bonneville Power: Overreach and Disaster -- 4 Paul Joskow and the Intellectual Blueprint for Industry Reform -- 5 Ken Lay: Competition Betrayed -- 6 Amory Lovins: Prophet of a New Order -- 7 Jim Rogers and the Politics of Accommodation -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring.

9780262330985


Electric utilities--United States--History.


Electronic books.

HD9685.U5 L253 2015

333.793/20973

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