Readings

Required Readings

U.S. Energy Information Agency. "World Energy Demand and Economic Outlook." (PDF - 20MB) Chapter 1 in International Energy Outlook 2011. pp. 9–24.

"Primary Energy Consumption." (PDF) BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011.

Friedman, T. "Our Carbon Copies (Too Many Americans)." Chapter 3 in Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008, pp. 53–76. ISBN: 9780374166854.

Recommended Readings

United Nations. 2008 Energy Balances and Electricity Profiles. United Nations, 2011. ISBN: 9789210613002.

Required Readings

Mason, Alpheus Thomas, and William M. Beaney. "Carter v Carter Coal, 298 U.S. 238 (1936)." In American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases. Prentice Hall, 2004, pp. 290–6. ISBN: 9780131174375.

Debate Preparation (PDF) (Courtesy of Susan Silbey. Used with permission.)

Selected Arguments of Antifederalists (1780s)

Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 40th Anniversary ed. University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 12–6. ISBN: 9780226264219. [Preview with Google Books]

Hayek, Friedrich. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents—The Definitive Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 71–3. ISBN: 9780226264219.

Marx, Karl. The 18th Braumaire of Louis Napoleon. Originally published in 1852. Dodo Press, 2009, p. 15. ISBN: 9781409961666.

———. "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1844" and "German Ideology, 1845–6." In Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy. Edited by T. B. Bottomore and M. Rubel. Reprinted in Watts, 1956. Penguin, 1963, pp. 91–5.

Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Aspects of Sociology. Edited by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. First published in 1956. Beacon Press, 1973, pp. 38–48. ISBN: 9780807041697.

Mills, C. Wright. "The Promise." In The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1959, pp. 5–7.

Recommended Readings

Hughes, T. P. "London: The Primacy of Politics." Chapter IX in Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Johns Hopkins, 1983, pp. 227–60. ISBN: 9780801828737. [Preview with Google Books]

Required Readings

World Climate: A Computer-Simulation-Based Role-Playing Exercise

At the site, you can freely access all of the materials needed to play and facilitate the World Climate simulation, including the models, facilitator guides, the negotiation documents, and other materials. Other simulations, animations, and tools recommended, but not required, can be found at Climate Interactive.

Required Readings

Note on the Economics of Energy Demand, Teaching Note (PDF)

McKinsey & Company. "Executive Summary." Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy (2009).

Recommended Readings

Smil, V. "Energy in the Twentieth Century: Resources, Conversions, Costs, Uses, and Consequences." (PDF) Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 25 (2000): 21–51.

Goodwin, P., J. Dargay, et al. "Elasticities of Road Traffic and Fuel Consumption with Respect to Price and Income: A Review." Transport Reviews 24, no. 3 (2004): 275–92.

Hausman, J. A., and P. L. Joskow. "Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Appliance Efficiency Standards." American Economic Review 72, no. 2 (1982): 220–5.

Required Readings

Friedman, M. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits." The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.

Handy, C. "What's a Business For?" Harvard Business Review 80 (2002): 49–56.

Pindyck, R., and D. Rubinfeld. Microeconomics. 7th ed. Prentice Hall, 2008, pp. 551–68. ISBN: 9780132080231.

Chapter 2 in [B].

Case

Biodiesel@MIT (PDF) (Courtesy of Susan Silbey. Used with permission.)

Required Readings

Cohen, M., J. March, et al. "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice." Administrative Science Quarterly 17, no. 1 (1972): 1–25.

Recommended Readings

Kagan, R., N. Gunningham, et al. "Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?" Law & Society Review 37, no. 1 (2003): 51–90.

Sharma, S. "Managerial Interpretations and Organizational Context as Predictors of Corporate Choice of Environmental Policy." Academy of Management Journal 43, no. 4 (2000): 681–97.

Loundsbury, M. "Institutional Sources of Practice Variation: Staffing College and University Recycling Programs." Administrative Science Quarterly 45, no. 46 (2001): 29–56.

Required Readings

Christensen, C. M. "Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study." Chapter 9 in The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Roberts, E., and W. Liu. "Ally or Acquire? How Technology Leaders Decide." Sloan Management Review 43, no. 1 (2001): 26–34; reprint no. 4312.

Recommended Readings

Munir, K., and N. Phillips. "The Concept of Industry and the Case of Radical Technological Change." The Journal of High Technology Management Research 13, no. 2 (2002): 279–97.

Required Readings

Pindyck, R., and D. Rubinfeld. Microeconomics. 7th ed. Prentice Hall, 2008, pp. 573–7. ISBN: 9780132080231.

Recommended Readings

Krautkraemer, J., and M. Toman. "Fundamental Economics of Depletable Energy Supply." Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 03-01 (2003).

Tietenberg, T., and L. Lewis. "The Allocation of Depletable and Renewable Resources: An Overview." In Environmental & Natural Resource Economics. 8th ed. Addison-Wesley, 2008, pp. 134–55. ISBN: 9780321485717.

Required Readings

pp. 1–11 and Appendix A in [M].

"Natural Monopoly Regulation and Electric Power." Chapter 12 in [V].

Recommended Readings

Griffin, J. M., and S. L. Puller. "Introduction: A Primer on Electricity and the Economics of Deregulation." In Electricity Deregulation: Choices and Challenges (Bush School Series in the Economics of Public Policy). University Of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780226308562. [Preview with Google Books]

Appendix B in [M].

Required Readings

Burstein, P. "Social Movements and Public Policy." In [G]. pp. 3–21.

Useem, B., and M. Zald. "From Pressure Group to Social Movement: Efforts to Promote Use of Nuclear Power." Social Problems 30, no. 2 (1982): 144–56.

Recommended Readings

Rucht, D. "The Impact of Environmental Movements in Western Societies." In [G]. pp. 204–24.

Cotgrove, S., and A. Duff. "Environmentalism, Middle-Class Radicalism and Politics." Sociological Review 28, no. 2 (1980): 333–51.

Required Readings

OECD. "Towards Green Growth: A Summary for Policy Makers." (PDF - 2.7MB) OECD (2011).

Recommended Readings

UN Environment Program. "Towards a Green Economy." UNEP (2011).

"A Bad Climate for Development," The Economist, September 17, 2009.

Hogan, D., M. Kapur, et al. "Rural Electrification in India: The Solar Energy Opportunity." (PDF) Class report, 15.220, Fall 2009.