A short history of deregulation -- Recent regulatory history -- Enron -- Deregulation -- Notes -- Corporate self-regulation: form versus substance -- The monitoring board -- Northeast Utilities: a failed competitive strategy -- Cost containment -- Cost containment versus safety regulation --...

With Risk and Ruin, Gavin Benke places Enron's fall within the larger history of late twentieh-century American capitalism. In many ways, Benke argues, Enron was emblematic of the transitions that characterized the era

The Americanization of Shell Oil -- Testing the waters -- Betting on technology -- The trials and triumphs of exploration -- The end of business as usual -- The offshore imperative -- Deepwater treasures in a new era of oil

Introduction -- Energy security : the current approaches of scholarship -- U.S.-Russia energy ties -- U.S.-Azerbaijan energy diplomacy : BTC and beyond -- Russia-Germany energy cooperation -- The Ukraine conflict : a game-changer? -- Conclusions and policy recommendations : away from resource...

The method of inquiry -- Fracking for oil and natural gas in Texas and its impacts on the economy -- Environmental federalism and federal regulations on fracking -- Factors affecting states' decision to frack and State of Texas' regulations on fracking -- Fracking and its impacts on the...