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Power and the public

Title
Power and the public / edited by Ernest Minor Patterson.
Publication
Philadelphia : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1932.

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Additional Authors
  • Patterson, Ernest Minor, 1879-1969.
  • American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Description
190 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Its Annals. ; v. 159, pt. 1
Uniform Title
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 159, pt. 1.
Subject
  • Public utilities > United States
  • Public utilities > Great Britain
  • Electric power-plants
  • Government ownership
  • Power Plants
  • power plants
  • nationalization
  • Electric power-plants
  • Government ownership
  • Public utilities
  • Algemeen belang
  • Staat (politicologie)
  • Great Britain
  • United States
Genre/Form
Konferenzschrift.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Field and function of the holding company -- Rates: domestic, commercial, and power -- Regulation: federal and state -- Valuation -- Public or private ownership -- Our electrical future.
  • The evils of the holding company / James C. Bonbright -- A defense of the holding company / William H. Hodge -- Pyramiding of holding companies / John T. Flynn -- Discrimination / Edwin Gruhl -- Are domestic rates fair? / Harold Evans -- Rates and service / W.S. Lee -- Cheaper electricity for the home / Leland Olds -- Lower domestic rates! / Henry T. Hunt -- Utility regulation, federal and state / Gifford Pinchot -- A plea for state regulation / William J. Donovan -- Valuation and rate problems / William L. Ransom -- Weaknesses of the valuation system / Henry C. Attwill -- The control of power rates in the United States and England / Richard Joyce Smith -- Electricity--a common carrier / Chester I. Hall -- A plan for public ownership and operation / Joseph B. Eastman -- A defense of private ownership / Samuel Ferguson -- Ownership and regulation of electric utilities in Great Britain / Orren C. Hormell -- Electricity--mankind's universal servant / M.S. Sloan -- The future of power and the public / Donald R. Richberg.
LCCN
32001849
OCLC
  • ocm00304505
  • 304505
  • SCSB-312160
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library