Public values in the energy sector: Economic perspectives

International Journal of Public Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 395-413

  Correljé, Aad F ^a   Groenewegen, John P M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Economic theory; Economics; Energy sector; NCE; Neoclassical economics; New institutional economics; NIE; OIEs; Original institutional economics; Policy making; Public values

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049100212     PISSN: 17400600     EISSN: 17400619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPP.2009.025079     Document Type: Review

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