The Political Economy of Pipelines : A Century of Comparative Institutional Development


Jeff D. Makholm
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2012.
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1 online resource (284 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; 1. The New Institutional Economicsand Pipeline Transport; 2. Existing Pipeline Studies and Private Pipeline Capital; 3. The Economics of Production Cost: Pipelines as Natural Monopolies; 4. Regulating Pipelines as a Response to Monopoly; 5. The Essential Contributions of the New Institutional Economics; 6. Transacting with Common Carriage: The Oil Pipeline Regulations of 1906; 7. Transacting with Private Carriage: The Gas Pipeline Regulations of 1938; 8. The Competitive Potential for the World's Pipeline Systems. - 9. Making Sense of Pipelines: The Lenses of the New Institutional EconomicsNotes; Bibliography; Index. - With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply are the pipelines that transport this energy. And while the fundamental economics of the major pipeline networks are the same, the differences in their ownership, commercial development, and operation can provide insight into the workings of market institutions in various nations. Drawing on a century o
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9780226502106

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