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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807061103321

Autore

Grossman Peter Z. <1948->

Titolo

U.S. energy policy and the pursuit of failure / / Peter Z. Grossman, Butler University, IN [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23420-4

1-107-32660-5

1-107-25537-6

1-107-33553-1

1-299-31891-6

1-107-33636-8

1-107-33304-0

1-107-33470-5

0-511-79341-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

BUS099000

Disciplina

333.790973

Soggetti

Energy policy - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Crisis; 2. Failure; 3. Fuels; 4. EIA; 5. Morality; 6. Apollo; 7. Collapse; 8. Crisis 2.0; 9. Modesty.

Sommario/riassunto

U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure is an analytic history of American energy policy. For the past forty years, the U.S. government has tried to develop comprehensive policies on energy, yet these efforts have failed repeatedly. These failures have not resulted from a lack of will or funds but rather from an inability to differentiate between what could be undertaken and what could actually be accomplished. This book explains how and why various policy efforts have come about, shows why politicians have been eager to back them, and analyzes why they have inevitably failed. Over the past four decades, U.S. energy policy makers have pursued not just policies that have failed but also a policy process that leads to failure.