The power brokers : the struggle to shape and control the electric power industry /
"For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophistic...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The MIT Press,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Samuel Insull, architect and prime builder of the electric utility business in the United States
- David Lilienthal and the era of public power
- Bonneville Power: overreach and disaster
- Paul Joskow and the intellectual blueprint for industry reform
- Ken Lay: competition betrayed
- Amory Lovins: prophet of a new order
- Jim Rogers and the politics of accommodation.
