Author: Tribhuvan Mohan Shukla
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
Keywords: electrification, rural, dimensions
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8172110898
ISBN-13: 9788172110895

Author: Bernard C. Beaudreau
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
Keywords: depression, macroeconomics, electrification, crash, market, production, stock, mass
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2004-06-27
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595323340
ISBN-13: 9780595323340

Economists and historians view the events of the 1920s, the stock market boom and crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal, as being largely independent. This work presents an integrated, empirically-consistent view of this important period arguing that all of these events can be traced back to a paradigm technology shock, namely the electrification of U.S. industry from 1910 to 1926. The author goes from electrification through the stock market boom to the tariffs of the late 20s to the stock market crash and depression followed by the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933.

Author: Douglas F. Barnes
Publisher: Resources for the Future Press
Keywords: rff, press, countries, developing, strategies, rural, electrification, challenge
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-07-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1933115432
ISBN-13: 9781933115436

Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and operating costs. Consumers are often poor, and their electricity consumption is low. Politicians interfere with the planning and operations of programs, insisting on favored constituents. Yet, as Barnes and his contributors demonstrate, many countries have overcome these