Gas, electricity and the energy review

Successes and Failures in Regulating and Deregulating Utilities: Evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 184-207

  Robinson, Colin ^a  

^a Royal Statistical Society   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746943845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845420789.00015     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Michael Beesley, ‘Foreword’ to Colin Robinson, Energy Policy: Errors, Illusions and Market Realities, occasional paper 90, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1993.
2. Details of the various government publications on energy in 2002 can be found in the energy section of the DTI’s website (www.dti.gov.uk/energy).
3. Our Energy Future - Creating a Low Carbon Economy, was published by the DTI in February 2003.
4. Department of Energy, Energy Policy Review, Energy Paper 22, 1977, and a Green Paper, Energy Policy: A Consultative Document, Cmnd 7101, 1978.
5. DTI’s Review of Energy Sources for Power Generation: Consultation Document, June 1998.
6. W.S. Jevons, The Coal Question, 1865, reprinted New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1965.
7. William G. Shepherd, Economic Performance under Public Ownership - British Fuel and Power, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965;
8. Political and Economic Planning (PEP), A Fuel Policy for Britain, London: PEP, 1966;
9. Colin Robinson, ‘Die Energiewirtschaft in Grossbritannien: Entwicklung und Perspektiven’, Weitschrift für Energie Wirtschaft, 2/91, 1991, Energy Trends and the Development of Energy Policy in the United Kingdom, Surrey Energy Economics Centre Discussion Paper 61, 1992;
10. A Policy for Fuel?, occasional paper 31, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1969.
11. Robinson, Energy Policy: Errors, Illusions and Market Realities. On the nuclear promotion policy, I mention below the possibility that it was not an objective in its own right but a consequence of coal protection.
12. National Coal Board, Plan for Coal, 1974;
13. Department of Energy, Coal for the Future, 1977.
14. Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall, What Future for British Coal?, Hobart Paper 89, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1981.
15. Colin Robinson, The Power of the State: Economic Questions over Nuclear Generation, London: Adam Smith Institute, 1991.
16. David Heald, ‘The Economic and Financial Control of the Nationalised Industries’, Economic Journal, 90, June 1980.
17. Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall, What Future for British Coal?, Prologue.
18. Nigel Lawson, The View from Number 11, London: Bantam Press, 1992, esp. ch. 15.
19. Colin Robinson, ‘Liberalising the Energy Industries’, Proceedings of the Manchester Statistical Society, 15 March 1988;
20. ‘Privatising the British Energy Industries: The Lessons to be Learned’, Metroeconomica, 1-2, 1992.
21. Colin Robinson, ‘After the Regulatory Review’, in M.E. Beesley (ed.), Regulating Utilities: A New Era, Readings 49, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1999.
22. R.G. Lipsey and K. Lancaster, ‘The General Theory of Second Best’, The Review of Economic Studies, 24(1), 1956.
23. H. Demsetz, ‘Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint’, Journal of Law and Economics, 12(1), 1969;
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25. F.A. Hayek, ‘The Meaning of Competition’, Individualism and Economic Order, London: Routledge, 1948.
26. Israel Kirzner, Discovery and the Capitalist Process, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
27. Robinson, Energy Policy: Errors, Illusions and Market Realities, p. 48.
28. David Henderson, The Changing Fortunes of Economic Liberalism, occasional paper 105, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1998, rev. ed. 2001.
29. Robinson, ‘After the Regulatory Review’.
30. Colin Robinson, ‘Depletion Control in Theory and Practice’, Zeitschrift für Energie Wirtschaft, 1/86, 1986.
31. Eileen Marshall and Colin Robinson, The Economics of Energy Self-Sufficiency, London: Heinemann, 1984, esp. ch. 5.
32. Department of Trade and Industry, Energy Trends, September 2002, Table 5.1.
33. www.chicagoclimatex.com.
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35. John P. Weyant (ed.), ‘The Costs of the Kyoto Protocol: A Multi-Model Evaluation’, The Energy Journal, special issue, 1999.
36. Colin Robinson, A Policy for Fuel?
37. Colin Robinson, ‘After the Regulatory Review’.