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Chapter 1 Internet Appendix The Houston Natural Gas 1.1 Linda Herrold Lay 1.2 Mandatory Open Access for Interstate Gas Pipelines 1.3 Ken Lay’s New Team 1.4 John M. ‘Mick’ Seidl 1.5 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) 1.6 InterNorth and Interstate Pipeline Deregulation References for Chapter 1 Appendix 1.1 Linda Herrold Lay In the mid-1970s, Ken Lay discovered an energetic, intelligent, and efficient
Read moreEnron Ascending: The Forgotten Years, 1984-1996 Internet Appendices Chapter 1: The New Houston Natural Gas 1.1 Linda Herrold Lay 1.2 Mandatory Open Access for Interstate Gas Pipelines 1.3 Ken Lay’s New Team 1.4 John M. ‘Mick’ Seidl 1.5 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) 1.6 InterNorth and Interstate Pipeline Deregulation References for Chapter 1 Appendix Chapter 2: HNG/InterNorth 2.1 Regulatory Delay under
Read moreChapter Notes & Bibliography Preface Introduction Introduction to Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Introduction to Part II Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Introduction to Part III Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Introduction to Part IV Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Introduction to Part V Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Introduction to Part VI Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Epilogue: Dangerous Ambition Preface Acknowledgments Introduction:
Read moreAdam Smith’s father-like contributions to economics in The Wealth of Nations(1776) have been challenged, beginning from at least the 1950 publication of Joseph Schumpeter’s History of Economic Analysis. The most negative view, surprisingly, has come from the free-market Austrian-School economist Murray Rothbard, who concluded: • Smith was not the founder of economics (“a science which existed since the medieval scholastics
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Read moreBook 2 Internet Appendices 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
Read moreBook 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 12.1 Standard Oil and Texas Politics The political phobia in Texas toward Standard Oil Company a century ago
Read moreBook 2 Internet Appendices Chapter 11: Pretty Boy and Mr. Pipeliner [Robert Herring and Ray Fish] 11.1 Herring at Ground Zero 11.2 Gas Pipelines and Eminent Domain Bibliography (PDF) 11.1 Herring at Ground Zero A little known story from Robert Herring’s life concerns his World War II intelligence work and association with an atomic bomb drop on Japan in August
Read moreBook 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 10.1 John Henry Kirby and Ken Lay: Parallels The parallels between John Henry Kirby (1860—1940) and
Read moreBook 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 9.1 Politics and the Origins of Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation The formation of
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