Электронная книга: Robert L. Bradley, Jr. «Edison to Enron. Energy Markets and Political Strategies»
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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 industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews… «This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas.» —Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston «… a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry.» —Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine «This is a powerful story, brilliantly told.» —Forrest McDonald, Historian Издательство: "John Wiley&Sons Limited"
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (born
Bradley has been a senior research fellow at the University of Houston and is currently senior research fellow (honorary) at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Bradley received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2002 for his work on free market approaches to energy sustainability.
Bradley spent nearly 20 years in the business world, including 16 years at
Bradley is the author of six books on energy history and policy, including "The Mirage of Oil Protection" (1989);"Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience" (2 vols.: 1998), which has been called "a landmark in regulatory studies"; "Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability" (ALEC); "Climate Alarmism Reconsidered" (2003); and (with Richard Fulmer) "Energy: The Master Resource" (2004), which Milton Friedman described as a "splendid" book that "effectively debunks the widespread predictions of energy doom."
Bradley's books and essays deal with the entire spectrum of energy-policy issues, from the origins of electricity- and manufactured-gas regulation in the last century to the Department of Energy's civilian energy programs today. His public-policy approach combines the historical record with market-process economics and libertarian social theory.
Bradley is currently writing "Political Capitalism: A Trilogy," a multi-faceted business history and business best-practices book, whose narrative climaxes with the rise and fall of Enron. Book 1, "Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy" (2008), will be followed by "Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies" (2009) and "Enron and Ken Lay: An American Tragedy" (2010). Bradley lives in Houston, Texas, and speaks on energy and corporate governance issues at academic conferences, business events, and other venues.
External links
* [http://www.politicalcapitalism.org Political Capitalism: Theory, History, Policy"]
* [http://www.energyrealism.org Institute for Energy Research]
* [http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth--1771-Ken_Lay.aspx "The Fall of Ken Lay: An Interview with Robert L. Bradley Jr.," "The New Individualist", April 2006]
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-280.html "Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not 'Green,'" by Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Cato Institute, August 27, 1997]
* [http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20070116-085702-9753r.htm Global warming policy perils] By Robert L. Bradley Jr. - January 17, 2007
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