Enron Ascending - Robert L. Bradley

Enron Ascending

The Forgotten Years, 1984-1996
Buch | Hardcover
816 Seiten
2018
Wiley-Scrivener (Verlag)
978-1-118-54957-5 (ISBN)
95,18 inkl. MwSt
A great fall cannot be understood apart from the rise that preceded it. Enron Ascending is the only book to date that examines in detail the first two-thirds of that iconic energy company's life. Thus, it is the only book to date that exposes the deepest causes of Enron's stunning collapse. Nobel economist Paul Krugman predicted that history would look upon Enron's plummet as a greater turning point than the fall of the Twin Towers.

Enron Ascending explains the shock of the company's fall by recalling the astounding achievements of Enron’s birth, childhood, adolescence, and early maturity. It sets forth the once-celebrated but now-forgotten industry and innovation that caused the company and its reputation to soar stratospherically. At the same time, always conscious of the company's fate, the book highlights throughout the developing habits of thought and behavior that later evolved into self-destructive acts of desperation and deceit.

Written fifteen years after the firm’s demise, Enron Ascending offers the long perspective of a uniquely positioned insider, Robert L. Bradley, Jr., the company's director of public-policy analysis and Chairman Ken Lay's personal speechwriter. The book also offers a library of previously unavailable information, drawn from Bradley’s innumerable corporate documents and unrepeatable interviews, which he collected in his capacity as the company's prospective historian.

Most important, however, Enron Ascending offers an antidote to the unending stories, studies, and books about Enron that are presented as just-the-facts but are in reality shaped decisively by the worldview of their authors. Bradley shows, beyond dispute, that the early habits which set precedents for Enron's history-making demise were directly contrary to the free-market behaviors and capitalist attitudes generally blamed for Enron's fall.

Robert L. Bradley Jr. a 16-year Enron employee and Ken Lay confidant, is a noted free-market scholar and public-policy entrepreneur. The founder and chairman of the Institute for Energy Research, Bradley is the author of numerous books and essays on the history and political economy of energy. He is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.; a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; and an honorary senior research fellow at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2002, he received the Julian Simon Memorial Award for his work on energy and sustainable development.

Introduction: The Process of Enron (Pages: 1-65) Part I : From HNG to Enron: 1984–1987

CHAPTER 1 The New Houston Natural Gas (Pages: 67-104)

CHAPTER 2 HNG/InterNorth (Pages: 105-146)

CHAPTER 3 Foundations (Pages: 147-182)

Part II : Peril and Progress: 1987–1989

CHAPTER 4 Crisis at Enron Oil Corporation: 1987 (Pages: 183-207)

CHAPTER 5 Recovery: 1988–1989 (Pages: 209-248)

Part III : Natural Gas, Natural Politics: 1990–1993

CHAPTER 6 Natural Gas Majoring (Pages: 249-305)

CHAPTER 7 Political Lay (Pages: 307-345)

Part IV : Jeff Skilling

CHAPTER 8 Gas Marketing: 1990–1991 (Pages: 347-384)

CHAPTER 9 Expanding Gas Marketing: 1992–1993 (Pages: 385-422)

Part V : Expanding Enron: 1994–1996

CHAPTER 10 The Steady Side (Pages: 423-460)

CHAPTER 11 Enron Capital & Trade Resources (Pages: 461-488)

CHAPTER 12 International Ambitions (Pages: 489-515)

Part VI : Restless Enron: 1994–1996

CHAPTER 13 Alternative Energies (Pages: 517-561)

CHAPTER 14 Visionary Enron (Pages: 563-587)

CHAPTER 15 Energy Retailing (Pages: 589-640)

Epilogue: Dangerous Ambitions (Pages: 641-675)

Kenneth L. Lay: A Chronology (Pages: 677-688)

Selected Bibliography (Pages: 689-718)

Illustration Credits (Pages: 719-720)

Name Index (Pages: 721-786)

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 10 x 10 mm
Gewicht 1243 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Besonderes Strafrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10 1-118-54957-0 / 1118549570
ISBN-13 978-1-118-54957-5 / 9781118549575
Zustand Neuware
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