Synopses & Reviews
This book offers the most comprehensive characterization assembled to date of the historical, institutional, and economic forces affecting electricity regulation. Eminent economists organized by the University of California Energy Institute survey the US, UK, Scandinavia, Latin America, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Recent experiments with privatization, competition, and restructuring in electricity are contrasted with instances where government ownership and traditional vertical integration still dominate. The introductory essay by Richard J. Gilbert, Edward P. Kahn, and David Newbery synthesizes individual country studies.
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"...delves insightfully into the electricity industries of some countries that have moved to restructure, such as in Scandinavia, the Southern Cone countries of South America, New Zealand and the U.K.; as well as those that have not, such as Germany, France and Japan. This book, rich with data and history as well as current movements and prospects, provides a wealth of information about the electricity industries of these countries, in many of which U.S. firms are now investing substantial capital."The Electricity Journal"Electric power sectors around the world are going through dramatic changes. This book provides an interesting and useful set of papers that examines the organizational, ownership and regulatory structures of the electricity sectors in a diverse set of countries. It explains the problems these sectors have faced, why and how they are changing in response to them. Must reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place around the world in this important infrastructure sector." Paul L. Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Rnternational Comparisons is a useful resource for the researcher or teacher with an interest in public utilities." Stephen H. Karlson, Journal of Comparative Economics
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"Many of the questions raised by these essays are of intrinsic value for the historian of the early church...Anyone interested in issues of multi-culturalism and cultural identity will find in this book examples and models of necessary scholarly sophistication." Trinity Journal"...this is an exciting and challenging collection...it raises the bar for studies of the intersecting configurations of identity, culture, and empire.... Goldhill suggests that these essays be taken as snapshots; I offer that he has produced a splendid collage." American Journal of Philology"Each essay informs; many challenge received assumptions...Goldhill's introduction - a major interpretative essay in itself - critically supplements the bibliography, defines issues, elaborates context, and thus provides thematic unity. To comprehend better the complexities literary, social, and religious of Hellenic societies within the Roman political orbit, read herein with profit and pleasure."CHOICE"This is a major contribution to our understanding of 'Greekness' in the period of the Second Sophistic. It is an excellent volume deserving wide reading by anyone interested in the question of identity formation in the Roman empire." Religious Studies Review"The articles [are] persuasive, and the volume as a whole a considerable stimulant for my own researches and teaching....[It provides] useful information and perspectives that need to be engaged by anyone who studies the literature, culture or history of the periods in question. And for those who wish to learn more about thses approaches and this area of study, this volume is very useful indeed." Classical Bulletin
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'\"This book is an important and original work of scholarship, well and thoroughly done.\" Bryn Mawr Classical Review'
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This advanced introduction to Horace considers his poetry not only as works of literature, but also as social acts which simultaneously promoted his authority while also paying deference to his eminent patrons. The book charts this aspect of the poetâs persona across his entire literary career.
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This book reassesses Western Europe's miraculous economic recovery from World War II and the crisis of 1947. The contributors expose the role of international institutions and contrast the very different national experiences. Their historical analysis has policy relevance--to the debate over the Maastricht Treaty and the Single Market Programme, to the difficulties of adjustment in formerly centrally planned economies, and to reform of the Bretton Woods institutions. This book will be of interest to students of modern European history and to economists.
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These essays explore the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. Specially commissioned they investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity. Presenting a series of brilliant insights into how the culture of Empire functions, this book offers a fascinating and alternative understanding of the long history of imperialism and cultural conflict.
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This is a critical edition of the Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, the first to be published in nearly seventy years. Professor Slings here provides a text accompanied by a translation. The book also contains a very extensive introduction and the first ever commentary in English.
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The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates" role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. This is the first critical edition to be published in nearly seventy years and the first ever commentary in English. Professor Slings here provides a text based on new examination of all relevant manuscripts and accompanies it with a translation. The book also contains a very extensive introduction and commentary.
Synopsis
'\'This book offers a comprehensive characterization of the historical, institutional and economic forces affecting electricity regulation.\''
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-237) and index.
Table of Contents
List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction and Survey: 1. Mainsprings of economic recovery in post-war Europe Barry Eichengreen; Part II. The Marshall Plan: 2. The Marshall Plan reconsidered Lucrezia Reichlin; 3. Influencing aid recipients: Marshall Plan lessons for contemporary aid donors Chiarella Esposito; Part III. Other International Intitiatives: 4. The IMF and the creation of the Bretton Woods System, 1944'"58 Harold James; 5. The GATT"s contribution to economic recovery in post-war Western Europe Douglas A. Irwin; 6. The European Coal and Steel Community: an object lesson? John Gillingham; 7. The European Payments Union: an efficient mechanism for rebuilding Europe"s trade? Barry Eichengreen; Part IV. Country Studies: 8. Germany and the political economy of the Marshall Plan, 1947'"52: a re-revisionist view Helge Berger and Albrecht Ritschl; 9. 'You've never had it so good?': British economic policy and performance, 1945'"60 N. F. R. Crafts; 10. 'Belgian miracle' to slow growth: the impact of the Marshall Plan and the European Payments Union Isabelle Cassiers; 11. France: real and monetary aspects of exchange rate policy under the Fourth Republic Gilles Saint-Paul; Part V. Synthesis: 12. Post-war Germany in the European context: domestic and external determinants of growth Holger C. Wolf; Index.