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Private and Public Responses to Market Failure in the U.S. Electric Power Industry, 1882–1942

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

William M. Emmons III
William M. Emmons III
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 452 - 454
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1991

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References

1 This dissertation was completed in 1989 at the Economics Department of Harvard University under the supervision of Richard Caves, Adam Jaffe, and Richard H. K. Vietor.Google Scholar

2 See, for example, Alchian, Armen, “Corporate Management and Property Rights,” in Manne, H. G., ed., Economic Policy and the Regulation of Corporate Securities (Washington, DC, 1969), pp. 337–60.Google Scholar

3 See Stigler, George and Friedland, Claire, “What Can Regulators Regulate? The Case of Electricity,” Journal of Law and Economics, 5 (10 1962), pp. 1–16;CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Jarrell, Gregg, “The Demand for State Regulation of the Electric Utility Industry,” Journal of Law and Economics, 21 (10 1978), pp. 269–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See Komiya, Ryutaro, “Technological Progress and the Production Function in the United States Steam Power Industry,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 44 (05 1962), pp. 156–66;CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Christensen, Laurits and Green, William, “Economies of Scale in U.S. Electric Power Generation,” Journal of Political Economy, 84 (08. 1976), pp. 655–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar