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Atomic Energy Costing / by Warren Young.

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This book deals with atomic energy costing on three levels: patterns, parameters, and politicization of atomic energy costing. The Introduction provides an overview of some of the debates on the early costing of atomic energy. Chapter 1 examines economic costing and economic consequences; the issue...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Young, Warren
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1998.
Series:Topics in regulatory economics and policy ; 29.
Subjects:
Engineering.
Computer engineering.
Engineering economy.
Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Chronology and Background: a "New World" with "Free Energy"
  • Key Questions and Debates, Ancient and Modern
  • 1 "Ancient Debates" over Costing and Control of Atomic Energy, 1946-54
  • A. Economic Costing, Consequences, and Control--the Cowles Project and Isard Studies and Lerner's approach
  • B. Variations on the theme: the UK Case--Blackett, Isard, Cherwell, Harrod and Cockcroft
  • 2 Patterns, Paramteters, and Politicization of Atomic Energy Costing
  • A. the Cost "Enigma" and Private Enterprise: profits and subsidies, interest and discount rates, private and social costs
  • B. Politicization of Atomic Energy Costing: a new political economy perspective
  • 3 Agency Theoretic and Welfare Aspects of Atomic Energy Costing and Regulation
  • A. Alternate Principal-Agent approaches to Public Utilities and their Regulation: from "control" and "capture" to "regulatory environment"
  • B. Pigovian and Coasian aspects of the Nuclear Cost Cycle
  • C." Planning Context," "Official Technology" and the notion of "Capture": a critique
  • 4 Modern Costing and Regulation Debates: from OPEC-1 Onwards
  • A. the nuclear-political cost cycle: from "independence" to "constraints"
  • B. a Free Lunch Again?--the New Atomic Energy the New Atomic Energy Costing Debate amongst economists and in the economic press from 1983 onwards
  • 5 Atomic Power and Its Regulation: a Comparative Analysis and Critique of Projections
  • A. The Japanese Nuclear Program--an overview
  • B. Japanese and US Regulatory Approaches in Theory and Practice
  • C. The UK case: regulatory failure or government failure?
  • D. US Department of Energy Long Term Projections for Nuclear Power: a costing-based critique
  • 6 Summary and Conclusions: Atomic Energy Costing--Retrospect and Prospect
  • Retrospect: "No Free Lunch"
  • Prospect: from regulated "plutonium" to deregulated "hydrogen-based" economies
  • Appendix:
  • Simon, Marschak and Schurr on the " 'Economic' and 'Trigger' Effects of Technological Change--the Case of Atomic Energy: from the 1940s to 1990s."

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