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Selling power : economics, policy, and electric utilities before 1940 / John L. Neufeld.
LIBRA HD9685.U5 N45 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neufeld, John L., author.
- Series:
- Markets and governments in economic history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric utilities--United States--History.
- Electric utilities.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- The economics of electric utilities
- Early commercialization
- The first electric utilities
- The adoption of state commission rate regulation
- Growth and growing pains
- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis
- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence"
- Hydroelectricity and the federal government
- Rural electrification
- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226399638
- 022639963X
- OCLC:
- 944087571
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