Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Zero to Eighty in Forty -- 1- Beyond Wishful Thinking: Facts, Deductions,and Grounded Assertions About Climate and Energy -- 2- An Energy Innovation System That Works -- 3- Electric Utilities and the Three Waves of Energy...

Intro -- Frédéric Bastiat / Economic Sophisms and "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen", (2016) -- Front Matter -- Half Title Page, p. i -- Frontispiece, p. iii -- Full Title Page, p. v -- Copyright Page, p. vi -- Contents, p. vii -- Foreword, p. xi -- General Editor's Note, p. xv -- Note on the...

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