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OverviewThis text deals with atomic energy costing on three levels: patterns, parameters, and politicization. It provides an overview of some of the debates on the early pricing of atomic energy, and then goes on to examine economic costing and economic consequences. The issue of economic control of atomic energy by government, public sector monopoly, or private enterprise is also discussed. The book focuses on the parameters of profits and subsidies and interest and discount rates and how they affect cost-benefit appraisals of nuclear energy. The politicization of atomic energy costing is dealt with via a discussion of alternate agency theoretic and welfare aspects of atomic energy costing, and then there's a survey of the modern costing and regulation debates in the US and UK. The final chapters deal with a comparative analysis of atomic power and its regulation in the US, UK and Japan and the material, and attempts to derive some conclusions regarding the atomic energy costing debates. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Warren YoungPublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Edition: 1998 ed. Volume: 29 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.830kg ISBN: 9780792383291ISBN 10: 079238329 Pages: 125 Publication Date: 30 November 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction, 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 EnergyCosting—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”.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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