Book Review Essay: The Old and the New Electricity Industry

Baiman, R. , H. Boushey , and D. Saunders , eds. 2000. Political economy and contemporary capitalism: Radical perspectives on economic theory and policy. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

Coyle, E. P. 2000. Price discrimination, electronic redlining, and price fixing in deregulated electric power. Washington, DC: American Public Power Association.

Hirst, E. 2001a. The California electricity crisis: Lessons for other states. Washington, DC: Edison Electric Institute.

Hirst, E. 2001b. Real-time balancing operations and markets: Key to competitive wholesale electricity markets. Report prepared for the Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC, and the Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, Alexandria, VA, April. Washington, DC: Edison Electric Institute.

Joskow, P. L. 2000a. Deregulation and regulatory reform in the U.S. electric power sector. In Deregulation of network industries: The next steps, ed. S. Peltzman and C. Winston . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Joskow, P. L. 2000b. Why do we need electricity retailers? Or can you get cheaper wholesale? Rev. discussion draft, February 13. http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=564

Joskow, P. L. 2001. California’s electricity crisis. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 17 (3): 365–388.

Klemperer, P. 2001. What really matters in auction design. Oxford: Oxford University.

Marx, K. 1976. Capital, vol. 1. New York: Vintage.

Moore, G. Kiplinger Business Forecasts, January 9, 2000.

Newbery, D. N. 2001. Regulating electricity to ensure efficient competition. Paper presented at the CEPR/ ESRC Workshop on the Political Economy of Regulation, November 1, London.

Newbery, D. N. 2002. Problems of liberalizing the electricity industry. European Economic Review 46: 1–10.

Banks, F. E. 1996. Some economics of electricity deregulation and privatization: An introductory survey. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University Press.

Cohen, S. 2000. A conceptual framework for devolving responsibility and functions from government to the private sector. http://www.columbia.edu/sc32/apsa.html.

Hirst, E. 2001c. Transmission planning for a restructuring of the US electricity industry. Washington, DC: Edison Electric Institute.

Klemperer, P. 1999. Auction theory: A guide to the literature. Journal of Economic Surveys 13 (3): 227–286.

Miller, D. A. 2001. Competitive trends in the domestic electricity industry: Their effects on supply, demand, and prices. New York: School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Pollitt, M. G. 1997. The impact of liberalization on the performance of the electricity supply industry: An international survey. Journal of Energy Literature 3 (2): 3–31.

Thomas, S. 2000. Theory and practice of regulation of liberalized electricity industry: British experience. Sussex, UK: University of Sussex.

Tsuji, M. , S. Berg , and M. G. Pollitt . 2002. Private initiatives in infrastructure: Priorities, incentives, and performance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.