Eve Vogel
Eve Vogel is Associate Professor and Co-Program Head of Geography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She studies the politics, history and policy of sustainable rivers and electric systems. A past research project focused on river floods in New England. Currently, she is researching the relationship among rivers, hydropower, and changing electric grids and policies. She is lead editor of a forthcoming special issue in the Northeastern Geographer entitled “Quebec Hydropower for a green Massachusetts? Connections, contradictions and contests of electricity.”
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The Texas Power Failure: How One Market Model Discovered Its Natural Limits
Relying on marginal market prices to provide the incentives for the production and delivery of electricity means that all of the biophysical...
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Antitrust and Competition
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Antitrust and Competition
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Antitrust and Competition
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Antitrust and Competition
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Antitrust and Competition
A Simple Way to Measure Tipping in Digital Markets
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Corporate Governance
The Most Famous Article on the Theory of the Firm is Widely Misunderstood
Michael Jensen and William Meckling’s famous 1976 Journal of Financial Economics article has been cited nearly 100,000 times and is often regarded...
