Author : John L. Neufeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022639963X
Book Description
The economics of electric utilities -- Early commercialization -- The first electric utilities -- The adoption of state commission rate regulation -- Growth and growing pains -- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis -- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence"--Hydroelectricity and the federal government -- Rural electrification -- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940