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Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies
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Chapter 1: Building General Electric
- 1.1 Electricity before Edison
- 1.2 Getting Fired: Never Letting Go
- 1.3 Gouraud to Edison on Insull: Letter of February 17, 1881
- 1.4 Edison and Politics
- 1.5 J. P. Morgan
- 1.6 Morgan as Political Capitalist
- 1.7 Edison versus Morgan
- 1.8 Insull: Edison’s Top Business Executive
- 1.9 Electricity versus Manufactured Gas
- 1.10 The “Battle of the Currents” Revisited
- 1.11 Edison’s Strengths and Weaknesses
- 1.12 Insull on Edison: Speech of March 14, 1926
Chapter 2: Dynamo at Chicago Edison
- 2.1 From Manufacturing to Integrated Distribution
- 2.2 Some Discrepancies in Insull Historiography
- 2.3 Corporate Culture
- 2.4 Battery Storage for Central Stations
- 2.5 Edison, Ford, and the Electric Car
- 2.6 The Utility of Electricity
Chapter 3: Expanding Horizons (1907—1919)
- 3.1 Insull and the Financial Crisis of 1914: Letter to William Beale
- 3.2 World War I’s Coal Transportation Crisis
- 3.3 Insull’s Argument for America’s Entry into World War I
- 3.4 Insull on Government Intervention
Chapter 4: Peak and Peril (1919—1929)
- 4.1 Anti-Electricity, Anti-Capitalism
- 4.2 Insull and Electric Vehicles
- 4.3 Insull’s Views: Some Quotations
- 4.4 Federal Trade Commission Investigation
- 4.5 Was Cyrus Eaton a Threat to Insull’s Empire?
Chapter 5: Plummet and Ruin (1930—38)
- 5.1 Insull’s Blind Spot: Business-as-Usual
- 5.2 Insull Confessions
- 5.3 Why Pyramiding?
- 5.4 The “Morgan Conspiracy” Theory
- 5.5 Insull’s File Biography
- 5.6 Insull, the New Deal, and Judge Wilkerson
- 5.7 Government Depression and Antidepression Policy and Insull’s Collapse
Chapter 6: Meadows to Murchison
- 6.1 The Great Depression (1929—38)
- 6.2 Clint Murchison and Oil Regulation
- 6.3 Murchison and Handshake Integrity
- 6.4 Other Murchison Political Involvement
Chapter 7: A Monumental Mistake (Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd.)
- 7.1 Lobbying Howe
- 7.2 Nationalist Arguments for Trans-Canada
- 7.3 Would Trans-Canada Have Been Built?
- 7.4 Trans-Canada and U.S. Wellhead Gas Controls
- 7.5 Canadian Gas Export Policy
- 7.6 The Rise and Fall of Clint Murchison Jr.
Chapter 8: Florida Gas Company
- 8.1 Natural Gas and Florida Environmental Issues
- 8.2 Wellhead Gas Price Regulation
- 8.3 Revenue Risk at Florida Gas Transmission
- 8.4 Transgulf Pipeline and Federal Rate Regulation
- 8.5 Ken Lay and LNG Pricing
Chapter 9: Transco Energy Company
- 9.1 Politics and the Origins of Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation
- 9.2 FPC Curtailment Policy
- 9.3 Jack Bowen as Political Capitalist
- 9.4 Reconstructing Markets under Natural Gas Price Controls
- 9.5 Ken Lay on Coal and Coal Gasification
Chapter 10: The Price of Bankruptcy (John Henry Kirby)
- 10.1 John Henry Kirby and Ken Lay: Parallels
- 10.2 Timber Conservation Practices
- 10.3 Kirby’s Philosophy
- 10.4 Conspicuous Consumption
- 10.5 Labor Issues
- 10.6 Kirby and Bigotry
- 10.7 Kirby and Protectionism
Chapter 11: Pretty Boy and Mr. Pipeliner [Robert Herring and Ray Fish]
Chapter 12: Formation and Maturation
- 12.1 Standard Oil and Texas Politics
- 12.2 Joseph Cullinan as a Political Capitalist
- 12.3 “Natural Monopoly” and Gas Regulation in Houston, Texas
- 12.4 Federal Regulation and Gas-Industry Disintegration
- 12.5 Houston Milestones
Chapter 13: Robert Herring and After
- 13.1 Intrastate Regulation by the Texas Railroad Commission
- 13.2 HNG and Federal Gas Regulation
- 13.3 HNG: Transitioning from Natural Gas to Coal
- 13.4 HNG and High-Sulfur Coal
- 13.5 Joanne King Herring
- 13.6 Robert Herring: Civic and Professional Associations and Awards
- 13.7 HNG as a “Fortune 500” Company
- 13.8 Robert Herring and Ken Lay: Parallels