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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (395 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262330985
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Power BrokersDDC classification:
  • 333.793/20973
LOC classification:
  • HD9685.U5 L253 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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