Samuel Insull and the Movement for State Utility Regulatory Commissions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9623744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Forrest Mcdonald (National Museum of American History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-254 |
| Publication date | 1958-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3111741 |
| OpenAlex | W2066963949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
It was one of history's sardonic pranks that the forces deriding business efficiency and clamoring for regulation made Samuel Insull a favorite scapegoat. He had built his early electric system in Chicago with vision, administrative and political skill, and a conspicuously advanced concept of public relations. Insull espoused the “natural monopoly” principle, but he shocked contemporaries by insisting upon the corollary necessity for public control. He fought hard and effectively for state regulation, not as a radical theorist hut as a realist with a record of public service unsurpassed in the infant electric utility industry
Corollary · Economics · Economy · Law and economics · Market economy · Monopoly · Natural monopoly · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public service · Scapegoat · Service (business · Sociology · State (computer science · American History and Culture · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2019 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |