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Preface | ||
Introduction, Chronology and Background: A "New World" with "Free Energy": Key Questions and Debates, Ancient and Modem | 1 | |
1 | "Ancient Debates" over Costing and Control of Atomic Energy, 1946-54 | 9 |
A | Economic Costing, Consequences, and Control - the Cowles Project and Isard Studies and Lerner's approach | 9 |
B | Variations on the theme: the UK Case - Blackett, Isard, Cherwell, Harrod and Cockcroft | 19 |
2 | Patterns, Parameters, and Politicization of Atomic Energy Costing | 23 |
A | The Cost "Enigma" and Private Enterprise: profits and subsidies, interest and discount rates, private and social costs | 23 |
B | Politicization of Atomic Energy Costing: a new political economy perspective | 30 |
3 | Agency Theoretic and Welfare Aspects of Atomic Energy Costing and Regulation | 39 |
A | Alternate Principal-Agent approaches to Public Utilities and their Regulation: from "control" and "capture" to "regulatory environment" | 39 |
B | Pigovian and Coasian aspects of the Nuclear Cost Cycle | 46 |
C | "Planning Context," "Official Technology" and the notion of "Capture": a critique | 49 |
4 | Modern Costing and Regulation Debates: from OPEC-1 Onwards | 51 |
A | The nuclear-political cost cycle: from "independence" to "constraints" | 52 |
B | A Free Lunch Again? - the New Atomic Energy Costing Debate amongst economists and in the economic press from 1983 onwards | 61 |
5 | Atomic Power and Its Regulation: A Comparative Analysis and Critique of Projections | 75 |
A | The Japanese Nuclear Program - an overview | 75 |
B | Japanese and US Regulatory Approaches in Theory and Practice | 79 |
C | The UK case: regulatory failure or government failure? | 82 |
D | US Department of Energy Long Term Projections for Nuclear Power: a costing-based critique | 85 |
6 | Summary and Conclusions: Atomic Energy Costing - Retrospect and Prospect | 91 |
Retrospect: "No Free Lunch" | 91 | |
Prospect: from regulated "plutonium" to deregulated "hydrogen-based" economies | 97 | |
App | Simon, Marschak and Schurr on the "'Economic' and 'Trigger' Effects of Technological Change - the Case of Atomic Energy: from the 1940s to 1990s" | 109 |
Bibliography | 113 | |
Index | 121 |
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