Failure by Design The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning

A new framework for studying markets as the product of organizational planning and understanding the practical limits of market design. The Western energy crisis was one of the great financial disasters of the past century. The crisis began in April 2000, when price spikes started to rattle Californ...

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Autor principal: Rilinger, Georg (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One A Case of Market Design Failure
  • Chapter One Two Tales of a Crisis
  • Chapter Two A Framework to Study Market Design
  • Chapter Three Breaking Bad in California’s Energy Markets
  • Chapter Four A Structural Explanation of the Energy Crisis
  • Part Two Why the Design Process Failed
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Five Politics, Politics!
  • Chapter Six The Perils of Modularization
  • Chapter Seven The Chameleonic Market
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Data and Methods
  • Appendix B: Key to Archival Sources
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index