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Here we consider some issues that are live in 2015, focusing on welfare.
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See Harris (2006), Electricity Markets: Pricing Structures, Economics (Wiley), for an explanation of thermally generated power.
See Harris (2014), Fixed and Variable Costs: Theory and Practice in Electricity (Palgrave).
See Sunstein (2014), Why Nudge—The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism (Yale University Press), for a discussion.
Townsend (1979), Poverty in the United Kingdom (London, UK: Penguin).
See Orwell (1937), The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin), on this.
See also Lawson (1997), Bills of Health (Oxford, UK: Radcliffe Medical Press).
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Harris, C. (2015). Current Topics in Electricity. In: Utility and Welfare Optimization. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-37100-3_5
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