Selling Power : Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940 /

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison's light bulb was the first to work within a s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neufeld, John L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Colección:Markets and Governments in Economic History
Temas:
Electric utilities - United States - History.
Electric utilities > United States > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
National Electric Light Association.
business history.
economic policy.
electric utilities.
government ownership.
history.
incentive alignment.
industrial policy.
industry structure.
peak load.
transaction-specific assets.
unintended consequences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Economics of Electric Utilities
  • Chapter 1. Early Commercialization
  • Chapter 2. The First Electric Utilities
  • Chapter 3. The Adoption of State Commission Rate Regulation
  • Chapter 4. Growth and Growing Pains
  • Chapter 5. Public Utility Holding Companies: Opportunity and Crisis
  • Chapter 6. Public Utility Holding Companies: Indictment and "Death Sentence"
  • Chapter 7. Hydroelectricity and the Federal Government
  • Chapter 8. Rural Electrification
  • Conclusion and a Look Forward From 1940
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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