Economics of the Energy Industries: Second Edition

Age Range: Adult
Author: William Spangar Peirce

Publication Date: 1996
Number of Pages: 336
ISBN: 0-275-95626-1
Cost: $45.00

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Phone: (203) 226-3571

Publisher's Description:

"A well-written and extremely informative book about our energy industries, their significance to the economy, and how economists analyze the problems associated with energy production and consumption. The reader with only a cursory knowledge of economic principles, as well as trained economists, will learn much from Peirce's incisive and sometimes acerbic examination of the coal, oil, natural gas, electric utility, nuclear power, and the alternative energy industries." --Choice review of First Edition

Contents

Figures and Tables -- Preface -- An Economic Approach: Measures and Analysis -- Energy: An Economist's View -- Energy Flows -- Markets, Prices, and Efficiency -- Energy and Economic Growth -- Guessing about Future Consumption and Production -- The Extractive Industries -- Reserves and Resources -- The Economic Theory of the Mine -- The Coal Industry -- The Oil Industry -- The Natural Gas Industry -- The Energy Conversion Industries -- The Electric Utility Industry -- Nuclear Power -- Other Sources of Energy -- Problems and Policies -- Health, Safety, and Environment -- Government Policy -- Selected References -- Index

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