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
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Corporate Governance
The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits
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Antitrust and Competition
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Antitrust and Competition
The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization
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Corporate Governance
Managers Should Satisfy Only the Ethically Permissible Preferences of Shareholders
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Economic History Series
Plagues Upon the Earth: How Wealth Intersects With Mortality
Kyle Harper’s new book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, shows that the story of disease is...
