> >....to make the larger point that energy
> > markets are already planned--just undemocratically.
>
> Care to expand? (seriously)
>
> Mark D H 'last time I hugged a tree it came' Lawrence-Jones
>
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This guy did his Ph.D. on oil oligopolies in 1973...
http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/jei/jeiauthm.htm
Munkirs, John R
Centralized private sector planning: an institutionalist's perspective on
the contemporary U.S. economy, John R Munkirs, December 1983, p. 931-67
Oligopolistic cooperation: conceptual and empirical evidence of market
structure evolution, John R Munkirs and James I Sturgeon, December 1985, p.
899-921
The dual economy: an empirical analysis, John R Munkirs and Janet T
Knoedler, June 1987, p. 803-11
The existence and exercise of corporate power: an opaque fact, John R
Munkirs and Janet T Knoedler, December 1987, p. 1679-1706
Petroleum producing and consuming countries: a coalescence of interests,
John R Munkirs and Janet T Knoedler, March 1988, p. 17-31
Technological change: disaggregation and overseas production, John R
Munkirs, June 1988, p. 469-75
The Dichotomy: views of a fifth generation institutionalist, John R Munkirs,
December 1988, p. 1035-44
Economic power: a micro-macro nexus, John R Munkirs, June 1989, p. 617-23
The triadic economy (centrally-planned, non-planned and govt.-directed
sectors), John R Munkirs, June 1990, p. 346-54
The automobile industry, political economy, and a new world order, John R
Munkirs, June 1993, p. 627-38
Munkir's page @ http://www.uis.edu/~ens/faculty5.html
and for those seeking to unite with those who aren't organizationally
challenged on this issue...
http://www.tao.ca/~no_oil/home.html
"By the time Veblen published The Engineers and the Price System in
1921, not only had he explicitly examined, in detail, the elements of the
emerging industrial class structure, but he had begun to overtly call for a
social and economic revolution against absentee ownership and the vested
interests by the nascent professional class, the engineers. Said revolt was
to be conducted by a form of sabotage he referred to, following the Wobblies
(the IWW), as the "conscientious withdrawal of efficiency." Only this kind
of revolution could succeed, Veblen argued, because it was upon the
expertise of the engineers that the operation of industry depended. Without
the expertise and leadership of the engineers, the working classes alone
could never sustain operation of the complex industrial machine process. Any
revolution in an existing industrial society that could not keep the wheels
of industry turning smoothly and without the serious disruption of
production would be doomed to failure." [James I. Sturgeon]
Ian
