Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Tennessee Valley Authority Financing
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Tennessee Valley Authority Financing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Tennessee Valley Authority Financing. Hearings ... S. 2373. July 1955
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Prisoners of Myth
Author: Erwin C. Hargrove
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Prisoners of Myth is the first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Valley Authority from its creation to the present day. It is also a telling case study of organizational evolution and decline. Building on Philip Selznick's classic work TVA and the Grass Roots (1949), a seminal text in the theoretical study of bureaucracy, Erwin Hargrove analyzes the organizational culture of the TVA by looking at the actions of its leaders over six decades--from the heroic years of the New Deal and World War II through the postwar period of consolidation and growth to the time of troubles from 1970 onward, when the TVA ran afoul of environmental legislation, built a massive nuclear power program that it could not control, and sought new missions for which there were no constituencies. The founding myth of multipurpose regional development was inappropriately pursued in the 1970s and '80s by leaders who became "prisoners of myth" in their attempt to keep the TVA heroic. A decentralized organization, which had worked well at the grass roots, was difficult to redirect as the nuclear genii spun out of control. TVA autonomy from Washington, once a virtue, obscured political accountability. This study develops an important new theory about institutional performance in the face of historical change.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Prisoners of Myth is the first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Valley Authority from its creation to the present day. It is also a telling case study of organizational evolution and decline. Building on Philip Selznick's classic work TVA and the Grass Roots (1949), a seminal text in the theoretical study of bureaucracy, Erwin Hargrove analyzes the organizational culture of the TVA by looking at the actions of its leaders over six decades--from the heroic years of the New Deal and World War II through the postwar period of consolidation and growth to the time of troubles from 1970 onward, when the TVA ran afoul of environmental legislation, built a massive nuclear power program that it could not control, and sought new missions for which there were no constituencies. The founding myth of multipurpose regional development was inappropriately pursued in the 1970s and '80s by leaders who became "prisoners of myth" in their attempt to keep the TVA heroic. A decentralized organization, which had worked well at the grass roots, was difficult to redirect as the nuclear genii spun out of control. TVA autonomy from Washington, once a virtue, obscured political accountability. This study develops an important new theory about institutional performance in the face of historical change.
Tennessee Valley Authority
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
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Category : Electric power production
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Electric power production
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Tennessee Valley Authority
Author: Rob Martin
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756713515
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reviews several issues pertaining to the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) financial condition. Increasing competition in electricity markets led TVA management to develop a 10-year business plan in 1997 to position TVA to be more competitive. Among the objectives in the plan was reducing TVA's cost of power, primarily by cutting its $27.4 million debt in half by 2007. This report examines TVA's (1) progress in reducing debt and recovering the costs of deferred assets, (2) financial condition, including debt and fixed cost ratios, compared to that of other utilities, and (3) potential stranded costs, options for recovering them, and how they are linked to TVA's debt. Charts and tables.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756713515
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reviews several issues pertaining to the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) financial condition. Increasing competition in electricity markets led TVA management to develop a 10-year business plan in 1997 to position TVA to be more competitive. Among the objectives in the plan was reducing TVA's cost of power, primarily by cutting its $27.4 million debt in half by 2007. This report examines TVA's (1) progress in reducing debt and recovering the costs of deferred assets, (2) financial condition, including debt and fixed cost ratios, compared to that of other utilities, and (3) potential stranded costs, options for recovering them, and how they are linked to TVA's debt. Charts and tables.
The Tennessee Valley Authority and Financial Disclosure
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Financial disclosure
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Financial disclosure
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Tennessee Valley Authority
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Agglomeration Economics
Author: Edward L. Glaeser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226297926
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cities industrial clusters remain vital. Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving goods and transmitting information. The studies cover a wide range of topics and approach the economics of agglomeration from different angles. Together they advance our understanding of agglomeration and its implications for a globalized world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226297926
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cities industrial clusters remain vital. Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving goods and transmitting information. The studies cover a wide range of topics and approach the economics of agglomeration from different angles. Together they advance our understanding of agglomeration and its implications for a globalized world.
Saving Capitalism
Author: James Stuart Olson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400886945
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
For two generations historians have debated the significance of the New Deal, arguing about what it tried and tried not to do, whether it was radical or reactionary, and what its origins were. They have emphasized the National Recovery Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, or the various social and labor legislation to illustrate an assortment of arguments about the "real" New Deal. Here James Olson contends that the little-studied Reconstruction Finance Corporation was the major New Deal agency, even though it was the product of the Hoover Administration. Pouring more than ten billion dollars into private businesses during the 1930s in a strenuous effort to "save capitalism," the RFC was the largest, most powerful, and most influential of all New Deal agencies, proving that the main thrust of the New Deal was state capitalism--the use of the federal government to shore up private property and the status quo. As national and international money markets collapsed in 1930, Hoover created an RFC with a structure similar to that of his War Finance Corporation. The agency was given two billion dollars to make low-interest loans to commercial banks, savings banks, other financial institutions, and railroads. With modifications, it survived the ultimate collapse of the economy in 1933 and went on to become the central part of the New Deal's effort to preserve fundamental American institutions. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400886945
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
For two generations historians have debated the significance of the New Deal, arguing about what it tried and tried not to do, whether it was radical or reactionary, and what its origins were. They have emphasized the National Recovery Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, or the various social and labor legislation to illustrate an assortment of arguments about the "real" New Deal. Here James Olson contends that the little-studied Reconstruction Finance Corporation was the major New Deal agency, even though it was the product of the Hoover Administration. Pouring more than ten billion dollars into private businesses during the 1930s in a strenuous effort to "save capitalism," the RFC was the largest, most powerful, and most influential of all New Deal agencies, proving that the main thrust of the New Deal was state capitalism--the use of the federal government to shore up private property and the status quo. As national and international money markets collapsed in 1930, Hoover created an RFC with a structure similar to that of his War Finance Corporation. The agency was given two billion dollars to make low-interest loans to commercial banks, savings banks, other financial institutions, and railroads. With modifications, it survived the ultimate collapse of the economy in 1933 and went on to become the central part of the New Deal's effort to preserve fundamental American institutions. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.