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Book 2 Internet Appendices 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. Bibliography (PDF) 7.1 Lobbying Howe The lobbying blitz by Clint Murchison toward

Book 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 6.1 The Great Depression (1929—38) Internet appendix 5.7, Government Depression and Antidepression Policy and Insull’s Collapse (www.politicalcapitalism.org/Book2/Chapter5/Appendix7.html), explained the role of government intervention in both creating the artificial

Book 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 5.1 Insull’s Blind Spot: Business-as-Usual Samuel Insull was the perennial optimist,

Book 2 Internet Appendices 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? Bibliography (PDF) 4.1 Anti-Electricity, Anti-Capitalism An attack on modernization and consumerism—and thus electricity in the Insull (pre-New Deal) era—has been undertaken by Ronald

Book 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 3.1 Insull and the Financial Crisis of 1914: Letter to William Beale The financial crisis,

Book 2 Internet Appendices 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 Bibliography (PDF) 2.1 From Manufacturing to Integrated Distribution Samuel Insull’s bold move from General Electric to Chicago

Book 2 Internet Appendices 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

Epilogue Internet Appendix Real Capitalism, Surreal Enron E.1. Ethical Individualism E.2 Self-Interest and Ethics Bibliography: Epilogue Appendices E.1. Ethical Individualism The discipline of business ethics should be reoriented around a more sophisticated understanding of capitalism proper. Business ethicists should also respect methodological individualism given that in both the primary and final analyses, businesses do not act, individual businessmen and businesswomen

Chapter 11 Internet Appendix New Light in the 1980s 11.1 Julian Simon as Paradigm Builder 11.2 Margaret Thatcher and Global Warming 11.3 Broader Energy Alarmism 11.4 Contemporary Hubbert Analysis Bibliography: Chapter 11 Appendices 11.1 Julian Simon as Paradigm Builder Julian Simon’s The Economics of Population Growth (1977) was hailed as a “path-breaking work” that offered “a new paradigm in the

Chapter 10 Internet Appendix The Dark 1970s 10.1 Hotelling’s Sophism 10.2 The Conversion of Julian Simon Bibliography: Chapter 10 Appendices 10.1 Hotelling’s Sophism   Harold Hotelling became the mineral-resource economist of choice in the 1970s, entirely eclipsing Erich Zimmermann. Hotelling’s “The Economics of Exhaustible Resources” (1931) theoretically explained the profit-maximizing distribution of a fixed stock between time periods under a