| Saving Energy Growing Jobs | |
| Table
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| Foreword by Senator
Olympia J. Snowe |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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Part
I: Energy Efficiency and the Economy |
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| 1 | The Critical Role of Energy Efficiency in the Economy Energy Use Reduction • Environmental Policies Generate Cost Reductions • Opposition to Energy Efficiency • Establish More Competitive Markets |
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| 2 | Direct Success in Energy Efficiency Early Resistance to Energy Efficiency • The Refrigerator Story • Other Energy-Efficiency Opportunities • How Far Can We Go with Efficiency? |
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| 3 | Enhanced Innovation-Energy Efficiency's Unexpected
Success Nonenergy Benefits • Innovation, Process Improvement, and Cost Reduction • Overcoming Barriers to Innovation • National Economic Development Policy and the Environment |
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Part
II: Environmental Protection, Economic Barriers, and Economic Development |
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| 4 | Economic Fundamentalism—The Use of Economics
as a Religion Rather Than a Science What Is Economic Fundamentalism? • How Economic Theory Serves as a Political Force • How Critical Assumptions of Economic Theory Are Violated in Practice • The Need for Regulation • How Markets Actually Work Chapter 5: Lessons from California’s Failed Experiment in “Free Markets” for Electricity |
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| 5 | Lessons from California's Failed Experiment in "Free
Markets" for Electricity The Road to Failure • What Actually Happened—Myth Versus Reality • The Consequences of the Restructuring Experiment • The True Causes of the California Energy Crisis |
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| 6 | How Markets Fail What Prevents Expected Results • Market Barriers o Market Failures o Human Failures • Institutional Failures: Trade Associations and the Politics of Environmental Protection • Factors for Market Success |
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Part
III: The Politics of Environmentalism |
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| 7 | Myths of the Anti-Environmentalists The Myth of Independent Objective Analysis • The Myths about Environmentalists • The Consequences of the Anti-Environmentalist Myths |
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| 8 | Myths of the Environmentalists The Greedy Corporation Myth • The “Bad People” Myth • The “Small Is Beautiful” Myth |
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| 9 | Legitimate Concerns of Business and Environmental
Interests Business's Concerns About New Regulation • Reasons Why Business Distrusts Environmentalists • Environmentalists' Concerns About Business • The Need for Better Communication |
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| 10 | What Truly Motivates Anti-Environmentalists A Story of Energy Efficiency and Global Warming • The Influence of Economic and Ideological Incumbency • Who Writes the Regulations • Government Versus Private-Sector Regulation |
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| 11 | Well-Designed Environmental Policies Current Environmental Policies • Future Environmental Policies |
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| 12 | Where Do We Go from Here? Environmental Policy Promotes Economic Growth • Current Barriers to Environmental Policies • How to Transform the Political Debate • Incentives and Regulation |
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| 13 | Appendix: Myths and Realities in California's Experiment
in Electricity Restructuring Myth 1: Huge Growth of Demand for Electricity • Myth 2: Environmentalists and State Bureaucrats Blocked New Power Plant Construction • Myth 3: Greedy Utilities Used Restrucuting as a Plot • Myth 4: The Flaws of Restructuring Were Clear to All • Myth 5: Restructuring Did Not Go Far Enough • Myth 6: The "Genius of the Market" Will Solve Everything |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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