The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure as a classic network industry makes it intricate in business terms as well, so deregulation of such a complicated industry was a particularly detailed process. Steve Isser provides a detailed a…
This book explains and tells the stories of how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT & T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. This book explains how four major firm…
This is the story of a revolution in American industry: the massive deregulation of markets by the government starting in the late 1970s. After an era of New Deal controls that lasted forty years, and in response to a stagnating economy, a new intellectual and political consensu…
"The book covers the basic modelling of electricity markets, including the impact of uncertainty, an integral part of generation investment decisions and transmission cost-benefit analysis" The book covers the basic modelling of electricity markets, including the impact of unce…
This book provides proven methods for supplying uninterrupted, quality power at a reasonable price to the consumer. Taking into consideration operating constraints as well as generation cost, line overload, and congestion for expected and inadvertent loading stress, the text pre…
This text covers the collapse of American telecommunications after six years of deregulation, road networks, the railways, utility markets in the European Union, postal regulation and gas, electricity and energy.
The freedom to make more rules -- Free markets in theory; intensive managerial control in practice -- The Macro: Sell out and pull out -- The Meso: Mistrust and monitor -- The Micro: Audit and cash in -- How governments missed this -- A retreat into rules. "In this book, Sidney…
"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dress…