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Edison to Enron : energy markets and political strategies /

The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bradley, Robert L., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : Scrivener : Wiley, ©2011.
Colección:Political capitalism ; bk. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction: Energy History in Rhyme
  • The Chief: Samuel Insull
  • The Chief: Samuel Insull. Building General Electric
  • Dynamo at Chicago Edison: 1892₆1907
  • Expanding Horizons: 1907₆1918
  • Peak and Peril: 1919₆1929
  • Plummet and Ruin: 1930₆1938
  • The Boss: Jack Bowen
  • The Boss: Jack Bowen. Meadows to Murchison
  • A Monumental Mistake
  • Florida Gas Company
  • Transco Energy Company
  • Houston Natural Gas Corporation
  • Houston Natural Gas Corporation. The Prince of Bankruptcy: John Henry Kirby
  • Robert Herring and Ray Fish
  • Formation and Maturation
  • Robert Herring and After
  • Epilogue: Market Order, Political Challenges
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Also of Interest.