Rational exuberance for renewable energy
Subtitle: an economic analysis
By: Srinivasan Sunderasan
Series: Green energy and technology; Green energy and technology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780857292117
Subjects: Government policy; Renewable energy sources; Environmental aspects; Technological innovations; Economic aspects; Energy policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Infant industry and incentive structures; title: 2. Renewable energy technology : market development, subsidy policy and the enlargement of choice; title: 3. Economic rents and the power of scarcity; title: 4. Revealed preference and the power of substitutes; title: 5. Mapping development policy onto the life-cycle; title: 6. Accounting for the environmental externality; title: 7. Microfinance : taking RE to the 'former poor'; title: 8. Epilogue : rational exuberance for renewable energy.