Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Energy Lessons from the Past for the Future
• Perfect Competition and the Coal Industry
• Natural Monopoly and Electricity Generation
• Deregulation and Privatization of Electricity Generation
• Monopoly, Dominant Firm and OPEC
• Market Structure, Transaction Costs Economics and U.S. Natural Gas Markets
• Externalities and Energy Pollution
• Public Goods and Global Warming
• Monopsony-Japan and the Asia Pacific LNG Market
• Same Theory and the European Natural Gas Market
• Allocating Fossil Fuel Production Over Time and Oil Leasing
• Computing Energy Costs and Supply
• Oil Refining, Energy Transportation, and Linear Programming
• Energy Futures and Options Markets for Managing Risk
• Energy Information Technologies
• Managing in the Multinational World Energy
• Appendix A: Glossary and Abbreviator
• Appendix B: Conversion Charts
• Appendix C: Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Carol A. Dahl is Adjunct and Professor Emeritus in Mineral and Energy Economics at the Colorado School of Mines and Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Petroleum-Beijing. Prof. Dahl is very active in the International Association for Energy Economics, serving on its journal's editorial board, acting as a book review editor, and having received the association's highest award for her unique contributions to the field.