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Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned? Edited by Nancy L. Rose 608 pp.; University of Chicago Press, 2014 In September 2005, the National Bureau of Economic Research [...]

Using Marginal Damages in Environmental Policy: A Study of Air Pollution in the United States By Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn 150 pages; American Enterprise Institute, 2013 Pollution control involves [...]

U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure By Peter Z. Grossman 397 pages; Cambridge University Press, 2012 For at least five decades, economists have provided essential insights into the [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency, under the direction of administrator Lisa Jackson, has launched a number of regulatory initiatives that affect the energy industry. Given President Obama's belief in the need [...]

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, [...]

AT THE TIME THAT THIS ARTICLE IS being written, in the spring of 2002, U.S. energy policy stands in fairly good state as compared to the heavy command-and-control policies that [...]