Main description: The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass...

Around the turn of the century, a debate occurred within the infant U.S. electric power industry on the issue of electricity rate structures. We describe those discussions and consider the views of some of the economists who first addressed the issue. Although they were ultimately unsuccessful,...

The history of electric utility regulation at both the state and national level from the beginning of the industry through the aftermath of the California energy crisis of 2000--01 is presented. That history was partly determined by the economics of the industry -- on the supply side by its cost...