Vietor Richard H K, Richard H. Victor, Vietor Richard H. K.

Energy Policy in America Since 1945

A Study of Business-Government Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This history puts business government relations in modern America in a critical new perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521335720
• ISBN-10: 0521335728
• Artikelnr.: 21770408

Inhaltsangabe

List of charts and figures
List of tables
Editors' preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: the political economy of energy
Part I. The Transition to Peace and Fluid Fuels, 1945-58: 2. The foundations of postwar policy
3. 'Stepping right out' with synthetic fuels
4. Regulating natural gas in the absence of economics
5. Oil imports: the failure of voluntarism
Part II. Managing Surplus Through the Politics of Stasis, 1959-68: 6. Oil import quotas
7. Formula for shortage: natural gas price controls
8. Sunfuels revisited: nostrum for the coal industry
Part III. The Second Energy Transition: Adjustment to Depletion, 1969-80: 9. Energy crisis and structural change
10. Equity versus efficiency: oil price controls
11. Natural gas: the dilemma of regulatory transition
12. Natural gas: the consequences of scarcity
13. National energy management
14. Business, government, and public policy
Index.