Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Growth and Crisis in the Japanese Economy -- 2 Economic Ascent and Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan's New Model in Iron Ore -- 6 Transporting Coal...

Coal, the nation's most abundant fossil fuel and the only one that is exported, represents one of our most valuable natural resources. This study undertakes a thorough review of the economics of the Appalachian coal industry. It establishes, first of all, the international framework within which...

We analyze a fundamental dilemma and time-inconsistency problem facing a climate coalition producing natural gas. In the short term, it is tempting to export more to outcompete coal. When this policy is anticipated, however, investments in renewables fall and emissions ultimately increase. When...

It was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward agricultural colony to the industrial force of the modern world. The driving power behind this transformation was coal, the black gold that even today illuminates...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the 2011 Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter I: The Planting of the Seed -- Chapter II: Records of Early Growth -- Chapter III: First Furnace and First Railroad -- Chapter IV: Early Records of Jefferson and Walker Counties -- Chapter V: Iron...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Which the President Seeks an Audience with the King -- 1 Empire and the Politics of Information -- 2 Engineering Economy -- 3 The Economy of Time and Space -- 4 The Slavery Solution -- 5 The Debate over Coaling Stations -- 6 Inventing...