The political economy of electricity : progressive capitalism and the struggle to build a sustainable power sector

Historical context -- Introduction -- The political economy of the paris agreement, technological progress and the decarbonization-development dilemma -- Analytic framework -- The technological revolutions of industrial capitalism -- The innovation system of progressive capitalism -- Opportunities -- The cost of electricity and other factors in selecting -- Resources to build a low-carbon future -- Energy potential and institutional resource needs -- Challenges -- Conceptualizing demonstrating market imperfections in the efficiency and climate change literatures -- The nuclear war against the future -- Policy responses and decision making tools -- The urgent need for policy action: ?commad but not control? as an embodiment of principles of progressive policy -- Decisionmaking and the terrain of knowledge -- Application of multi-criteria portfolio analysis -- Appendix I: Democratic equality and the encyclical on climate change as progressive capitalism -- Appendix II: Conceptual specification of market imperfections -- Appendix III: Empirical evidence on policy directly evaluating price in the climate change analysis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index