Economics of the International Coal Trade

Economics of the International Coal Trade

Author: Lars Schernikau

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-07-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9048192404

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This book analyzes the international seaborne steam coal trade and investigates resource economics and market structures of the global coal market. It develops a model to analyze pricing structures which are based on the cost minimization principle.


Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Author: K. Man-Bun

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-24

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1137331941

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Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.


The Global Coal Market

The Global Coal Market

Author: Mark C. Thurber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 1107092426

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A major study of the modern global coal market and its impacts both on energy markets and on climate policy.


Coal

Coal

Author: Mark C. Thurber

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 150951404X

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By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping to drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet, continued reliance on this ancient rock carries a high price in smog and greenhouse gases. We use coal because it is cheap: cheap to scrape from the ground, cheap to move, cheap to burn in power plants with inadequate environmental controls. In this book, Mark Thurber explains how coal producers, users, financiers, and technology exporters drive this supply chain, while fragmented environmental movements battle for full incorporation of environmental costs into the global calculus of coal. Delving into the politics of energy versus the environment at local, national, and international levels, Thurber paints a vivid picture of the multi-faceted challenges associated with continued coal production and use in the twenty-first century.


Firms, Markets and Hierarchies

Firms, Markets and Hierarchies

Author: Glenn R. Carroll

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-01-28

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0195119517

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This text presents a stock-taking of the work that has been done since the appearance of Oliver Williamson's seminal book Markets and Hierarchies, which gave new life to the concept of transaction cost analysis.


Fuelling the World Economy

Fuelling the World Economy

Author: Daniel Castillo Hidalgo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-07

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 3031325656

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This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the second half of the nineteenth century. Each chapter includes case studies from different parts of the world, explaining the role played by coal in the expansion of the shipping industry. This book also explores regions usually neglected by the mainstream scholarly literature in this field. The relationship between steam engine technology and imperial expansion, how the emergence of global security was driven by maritime technological revolutions, and the connection between global seaports and the spread of global economic and political systems are also discussed. This book aims to highlight the important role seaports and fuel markets played in the evolution of international commercial flows and activities. Fuelling the World Economy will be useful for historians, economists, and geographers interested in maritime and energy issues, as well as researchers interested in transport and technology.


Inside the Energiewende

Inside the Energiewende

Author: Christine Sturm

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-27

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 3030427307

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This book tells the story of one nation’s sustained efforts to steer its economy toward low carbon technologies and to define national and global pathways for mitigating climate change. Drawing on a long career in Germany’s energy sector, and on subsequent academic research, the book reveals the weaknesses of and critical trade-offs in Germany’s bold energy transition plan − the Energiewende − and explores their causes. Its goal is to provide insights to help policymakers and energy managers keep some of the problems that have plagued the Energiewende at bay, and to instead explore avenues that are more likely to succeed. While such insights cannot solve the problem of socio-technical change overnight, they do reveal alternative transition pathways that keep climate goals clearly in sight, even if they are pursued with a bit less exuberance and a bit more humility. The book is addressed to academic, professional, and political readers alike.