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Controversial Issues in Energy Policy

By Alfred A. Marcus

Book information

Publisher
Inc, Sage Publications
Year
1992
ISBN
0803939698, 9780803939691
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8169679 bytes)
Series
Controversial Issues in Public Policy
Pages
158\175
Time added
2018-02-18 10:29:29
Economics;Banks & Banking;Commerce;Commercial Poli

Description

How has the world coped with past energy crises? In this volume, Marcus reveals both the shortcomings and failures and the surprising successes of past efforts. With the decline of the Cold War, energy policy issues are among the most important factors in world politics. Energy policies provide a new context for the evolution of other internationally significant policies; namely, global trade, new Eastern European economies and emerging environmental issues. Introducing energy issues by reviewing events which transpired in the Persian Gulf after August 1990, Marcus then examines trends in energy productionnsumption worldwide since the first energy supply crisis of 1973. Ensuing chapters discuss the economics and the politics of energy polic

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