Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-562) and index.

Energy lessons from the past for the future -- Perfect competition and the coal industry -- Natural monopoly and electricity generation -- Deregulation and privatization of electricity generation -- Monopoly, dominant firm, and OPEC -- Market structure, transaction costs economics and U.S. natural gas markets -- Externalities and energy pollution -- Public goods and global climate change -- Monopsony : Japan and the Aasia Pacific LNG market -- Game theory and the western European natural gas market -- Allocating fossil fuel production over time and oil leasing -- Supply and cost curves -- Linear programming, refining, and energy transportation -- Energy futures and options markets for managing risk -- Energy and information technologies -- Managing in the multicultural world of energy.