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Collapse of an Industry

Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U. S. Policy

By: John L. Campbell

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Collapse of an Industry

Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U. S. Policy

By: John L. Campbell

The commercial nuclear power industry was flourishing in the United States in the early 1970s; fifteen years later, the enterprise had collapsed. John L. Campbell examines the history of this debacle in order to explore how state and market shape each other under modern capitalism. In Collapse of an Industry, Campbell confronts controversial issues whose implications range far beyond the specifics of the nuclear power industry: the relative merits of free and controlled markets, the reliability of industrial planning, and the appropriate role of the state in managing economic activity. Ultimately, Campbell sheds light on the central question of whether modern democracy and capitalism may be essentially incompatible. A complex, expensive, and potentially very dangerous technology, nuclear energy requires careful long-range planning to sustain commercial success. Campbell's narrative account shows how political and economic institutions unique to the United States made the nuclear energy industry particularly vulnerable to a series of policy failures that undermined that planning. Drawing on industry histories and trade publications, government documents and personal interviews, he considers four key areas central to the collapse of the sector: competition and the failure to standardize equipment; growing public concern over reactor safety and the disposal of radioactive waste; the industry's financial crisis; and the complex politics of regulation. Campbell argues that the democratic institutions of the contemporary United States will not support the predictable conditions needed for accumulation in so capital-intensive and potentially hazardous a sector as commercial nuclear power. He emphasizes the importance of institutional forms to the making of public policy by contrasting the industry's demise in the United States with its modest successes in Western Europe, demonstrating how variations in important governmental and private institutions affected the general health of the industry in France, Sweden, and West Germany. A theoretically informed analysis free of the usual polemics about nuclear power, Collapse of an Industry merits the close attention of anyone concerned with the future of the commercial nuclear power industry.

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Cornell University Press

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150173363X

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9781501733635

A Theory of Insurance and Gambling

Replacing Risk Preferences with Quid Pro Quo

By: John A. Nyman

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A Theory of Insurance and Gambling

Replacing Risk Preferences with Quid Pro Quo

By: John A. Nyman

This book holds that the demand for insurance is best understood, not by focusing on risk preferences, but by focusing on the additional income, the states of the world that trigger the income transfer from the insurer, and the value of income (and consumption) in those states. It is unlikely that demand can be understood if the analyst limits the gain from insurance to coverage of the uninsured loss alone. It is also unlikely that the demand can be understood if the analyst limits the analysis to a movement along a static "risk averse" utility or value function, rather than acknowledging that a shift of this function, and thus in the utility or value of additional income, often coincides with the occurrence of the event that triggers the payout"--

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Oxford University Press

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019768792X

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9780197687925

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition

By: John F. Cogan,R. Glenn Hubbard,Daniel P. Kessler

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition

By: John F. Cogan,R. Glenn Hubbard,Daniel P. Kessler

In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private markets and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, we can slow the rate of growth of health care costs, expand access to high-quality health care, and slow down runaway spending.

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177

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Hoover Press

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0817910662

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9780817910662

Violence in Urban America

Mobilizing a Response

By: National Research Council and John F. Kennedy School of Government,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Harvard University

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Violence in Urban America

Mobilizing a Response

In this summary of a unique conference on urban violence, mayors, police chiefs, local, state, and federal agency experts, and researchers provide a wealth of practical ideas to combat violence in urban America. This book will be a valuable guide to concerned community residents as well as local officials in designing new approaches to the violence that afflicts America's cities. single copy, $12.95; 2-9 copies, $9.95 each; 10 or more copies, $6.95 each (no other discounts apply)

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National Academies Press

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0309050391

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Book's by John E. Rolph

Collapse of an Industry

Collapse of an Industry

A Theory of Insurance and Gambling

A Theory of Insurance and Gambling

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Violence in Urban America

Violence in Urban America

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