Format:
1 online resource (418 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107005174
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9781107333048
Content:
Grossman analyses the serial failures of US energy policy, failures that have been extraordinarily wasteful, with little learned by policy makers in the process. Congresses and presidential administrations have repeatedly backed failed policies because they promise unrealistic solutions that are politically expedient with little chance of practical success
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Citations in Footnotes -- Primary Sources -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- one Crisis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework of an Energy Crisis -- a. What Is an Energy Crisis? -- born Energy Crisis Economics -- c. The Cost of Living Council and Phase IV -- 3. The Embargo -- 4. The "Do Something" Problem -- 5. The EPAA and Its Consequences -- 6. Project Independence and Other "Solutions" -- a. The Energy Policy Conundrum -- b. Defining Energy Independence down -- two Failure -- 1. The Premise of U.S. Energy Policy -- 2. The Nature of (Energy) Market Failure -- 3. The Nature of Government Failure -- a. Four Categories of Government Failure -- 4. Market Failures and the Goals of Energy Policy -- 5. Conclusion -- Three Fuels -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coal: A Special Case -- 3. Oil 1900-70 -- a. The Problem of Forecasts -- b. The Shortage Mind-set and Its Consequences -- c. Waste, Conservation, Antitrust, and the Birth of a Cartel (Not the One You Think) -- d. The "Solution" to Imports: The Mandatory Oil Import Program (MOIP) -- 4. Natural Gas Policy to 1960 -- 5. Nuclear Power: Energy Policy as Public Contrition and National Honor -- 6. The Road to the Energy Crisis -- FOUR EIA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Policy Inheritance and Path Dependence -- 3. The Energy Independence Act of 1975 -- 4. The Energy Independence Authority -- Five Morality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Policy Means and Ends from a Neo-Malthusian Perspective -- 3. The "Moral Equivalent of War" -- 4. "Sun Day" and Carters First Large-Scale Alternative Energy Goal -- 5. "A Crisis of Confidence" -- SIX Apollo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Supply and Demand for Innovation -- a. Demand-Side Models -- born Technology Forcing -- 3. Picking Losers -- 4. Diffusion -- Seven Collapse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Institutional Origins of the Oil Price Collapse (or Why OPEC Nearly Died)
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3. The Ways of the Oil Market: Ideology and Reality -- 4. Next "Energy Crisis" -- 5. Climate, Not Energy, Policy -- EIGHT Crisis 2.0 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Energy and the Macroeconomy -- 3. The Seventy-Five Percent of Twenty-Five Percent Solution -- 4. Nothing Learned -- 5. The Department of Energy, Thirty-Four Years Later -- Nine Modesty -- 1. Markets -- 2. Toward a Modest Energy Policy -- i. Change the Narrative -- ii. Make Energy Policy about Energy -- iii. Make Every Goal of Energy Policy Measurable, Explicit, and Realistic -- iv. Focus on Institutions -- v. Recognize the Trade-Offs -- vi. End Commercialization Subsidies -- vii. Support Energy R& -- D -- viii. Reform or Abolish the Department of Energy -- ix. Improve Market Failures -- A. Thoughts on the Intersection of Energy and Climate -- x. Understand That Forecasts Are Usually Wrong -- xi. Rely on Markets Generally (There Are Greater Catastrophes than Price Fluctuations) -- 3. A Final Word -- Appendix The "Do Something" Dilemma, a Decision Problem -- a. Definitions, Assumptions -- b. The "Do Something" Process -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Grossman, Peter Z. US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107005174
Language:
English
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