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Selling power : economics, policy, and electric utilities before 1940 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neufeld, John L. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Series:Markets and governments in economic history.
Subjects:
Electric utilities > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.