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Knowledge and Cooperation: A Liberal Interpretation Daniel B. Klein New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 3,51 pp. Daniel B. Klein's fascinating exposition of the case for limited government argues that [...]

Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy Mark Pennington Cheltenham and Northampton, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010, 320 pp. Pennington undertakes a needed effort to provide a [...]

The Oxford Handbook of Regulation Edited by Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge 688 pages; Oxford University Press, 2010 For several decades, commercial publishers such as Elsevier and Edward [...]

Introduction to the Global Oil & Gas Business by SAMUEL A. VAN VACTOR (Tulsa: PennWell 2010) 176 pages, ISBN 978-1-59370-214-4 At least since the ill-designed Chaney report of 2001, many [...]

The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America Robert H. Nelson University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press for the Independent Institute, 2010, 388 pp. [...]

Energy and the Transformation of International Relations: Toward a New Producer Consumer Framework, Edited by Andreas Wenger, Robert W. Orttung, and Jerome Perovic. (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Oxford [...]

Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy; Book 1 of Political Capitalism (A Trilogy) Robert L. Bradley Jr. Salem, Mass.: M & M Scrivener Press, 2009, 485 pp. Robert L. [...]

Sustainable Fossil Fuel: The Unusual Suspects in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy, by Mark Jaccard (Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press 2005) 381 pages, ISBN 13- 978-0-521-86179-4 hardback, ISBN [...]

From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity, by RICHARD MUNSON (Westport: Praeger, 2005) 206 pages, ISBN 0-275-98740-X. Disguised as a [...]

THE ANTITRUST ENTERPRISE: Principle and Execution By Herbert Hovenkamp 376 pages; Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006 In The Antitrust Enterprise, University of Iowa law professor Herbert Hovenkamp undertakes an [...]

Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties, by VACLAV SMIL. (The MIT Press, 2003), 427 pages. ISBN 0-62-19492-9. Why Carbon Fuels Will Dominate the 21st Century's Global Energy Economy, [...]

Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century: Markets, Geopolitics and Corridors, Edited by Jose MARIA MARIN-QUEMADA, JAVIER GARCIA-VERDUGO, AND GONZALO ESCRIBANO (London and New York: Routledge 2012) Hardbound, [...]

The Joint Institute for Energy and Environment at the University of Tennessee commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the 1973-4 oil shocks with a symposium. The result, two years later, is [...]

Smart Solutions to Climate Change, edited by Jorn Lomborg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 413 pp. hardback and paperback ISBN 978-0-521-76342-4 and ISBN 978-0-13856-7 This book represents an unusually drastic change [...]

A FAILURE OF CAPITALISM: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression By Richard A. Posner 346 pages; Harvard University Press, 2009 THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY By Richard [...]

ACTING IN TIME ON ENERGY POLICY Edited by Kelly Sims Gallagher 188 pages; Brookings Institution Press, 2009 When two great centers of economic thinking unite, they should produce a definitive, [...]

HOW THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OVERSHOT THE MARK: The Effect of Conservative Economic Analysis on U.S. Antirust Edited by Robert Pitofsky 309 pages; Oxford University Press, 2008 One of the most [...]

THE UNSUSTAINABLE COSTS OF PARTIAL DEREGULATION By Paul W. MacAvoy 208 pages; New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 2007 After the dismantling of regulation of air, truck, and rail transportation [...]

ELECTRICITY MARKET REFORM: An International Perspective Edited by Fereidoon S. Sioshansi and Wolfgang Pfaffenberger 654 pages; Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier, 2006 This year's entry into the electricity reform literature is Electricity [...]

LEVIATHAN: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty By Clint Bolick 208 pages; Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2004 CLINT BOLICK, A LONGtime practitioner against and critic [...]

Thatcherism and the Fall of Coal by MICHAEL T. PARKER, (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK, 2000), 246 pages, 72 tables. ISBN 0-19-730025-1. Mike [...]

THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST: Measuring the Real State of the World By Bjorn Lomborg 515 pp., Cambridge, U.K., and New York, N.Y.: The Cambridge University Press, 2001. By stressing his conversion [...]

The Andrews book is an anthology of 27 papers on electric utilities. These are divided almost equally between discussions of basic concepts and case studies. The cases relate to seven [...]

As the subtitle reminds us, for over three decades, M.A. Adelman produced the definitive studies of the world petroleum market. The volume under review provides a selection of 27 of [...]

Petroleum Economics Jean Masseron, Petroleum Economics (Paris: Editions Technip., 1990), 519 pages. Most writers on petroleum find crude oil production enough of a challenge to seize their entire attention. This [...]

Fuelling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan Laura E. Hein, Fuelling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Council on [...]

A Modern Introduction by FERDINAND E. BANKS. (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). 288 pages, ISBN 0-7923-7700-1 Banks has sought to fill a significant hiatus in energy economics, a clear, contemporary, [...]

No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East By Ivan Eland 215 pages; Independent Institute, 2011 In his new book No War for Oil, Ivan Eland of the [...]

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell 274 pages; University of Chicago Press, 2011 The energy hysteria so rampant among American [...]

Antitrust Law and Economics Edited by Keith N. Hylton 298 pages; Edward Elgar, 2010 A decade ago, Edward Elgar Publishing released its Encyclopedia of Law and Economics in five thick [...]

The Economics of Public Utilities, edited by RAY REES (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2006) 2 vol. 560 and 473 pages, ISBN-13: 978 1 84064 908 6; ISBN 10: 1 [...]

COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKETS AND SUSTAINABILITY Edited by Francois Leveque 302 pages; Chelenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006 While the title Competitive Markets and Sustainability suggests another monograph favoring 'renewable' energy, this [...]

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON ECONOMIC REGULATION Edited by Michael Crew and David Parker 405 pages; Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2006 Literature surveys are a staple of commercial academic publishers like Edward [...]

ECO-FREAKS: Environmentalism Is Hazardous for Your Health! By John Berlau 250 pages; Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Current, 2006 Even people who sympathize with the environmental movement worry about the current proliferation [...]

ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION: Choices and Challenges Edited by James M. Griffin and Stephen L. Puller 446 pages; Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005 Over the past several decades, many anthologies [...]

ENERGY AND SECURITY: Towards a New Foreign Policy Strategy Edited by Jan H. Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn 604 pp.; Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005 One of the [...]

CHOOSING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe edited by Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern, and Thomas Sterner 284 pages; Washington, D.C.: Resources for the [...]

THE END OF A NATURAL MONOPOLY: REGULATION AND COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY Edited by Peter Z. Grossman and Daniel H. Cole 256 pp; New York, N.Y.: Taylor & [...]

A POVERTY OF REASON: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth by Wilfred Beckerman 130 pp., Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2002 AT LEAST SINCE ITS endorsement in a 1987 United Nations [...]

by JAHANGIR AMUZEGAR (London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd.; New York: St. Martin's, 1999), 266 pages. ISBN 1 86064 292 6. This book is literally and figuratively the epitome [...]

Since the collapse of communism, economists within and outside the former COMECON countries have prepared many efforts to explain and evaluate prospects. Radetzki, a well-established analyst of world mineral markets, [...]

The Hargrove book is an interesting contrast to the one by Andrews above. The author is a political scientist at Vanderbilt and presents an analysis of the political dynamics of [...]