The political economy of pipelines
Subtitle: a century of comparative institutional development
By: Jeff D. Makholm
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780226502106
Subjects: Institutional economics; Petroleum pipeline industry; Government policy; Petroleum law and legislation; Economic aspects; Petroleum industry and trade
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: The new institutional economics and pipeline transport; title: Existing pipeline studies and private pipeline capital; title: The economics of production cost: pipelines as natural monopolies; title: Regulating pipelines as a response to monopoly; title: The essential contributions of the new institutional economics; title: Transacting with common carriage: the oil pipeline regulations of 1906; title: Transacting with private carriage: the gas pipeline regulations of 1938; title: The competitive potential for the world's pipeline systems; title: Making sense of pipelines: the lenses of the new institutional economics.