Selling power : economics, policy, and electric utilities before 1940 /
Neufeld, John L.,author.
The economics of electric utilities -- Early commercialization -- The first electric utilities -- The adoption of state commission rate regulation -- Growth and growing pains -- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis -- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence" -- Hydroelectricity and the federal government -- Rural electrification -- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electric utilities
Electric utilities.