Collapse of an Industry : Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy /

The commercial nuclear power industry was flourishing in the United States in the early 1970s; fifteen years later, the enterprise had collapsed. John L. Campbell examines the history of this debacle in order to explore how state and market shape each other under modern capitalism. In Collapse of an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, John L. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2019]
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv4173c
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I. THE PROBLEM OF POLICY CONSTRAINTS
  • Part II. THE FAILURE OF COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR ENERGY POLICY
  • Part III. INSTITUTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS
  • References
  • Index