Annotated Bibliography
Griffin, J. M. 2009. A Smart Energy Policy: An Economist’s Rx for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure Energy. Yale University Press.
Energy and environmental policy is just one area among many in which the stranglehold of lobbyists and wealthy elites over the political system is obvious, and this has done much to fuel the populist backlash in recent years. In 2000-08, the energy and natural resource sector spent $304 million on federal elections, 72% of which went to Republican candidates. Of this $141 million came from the oil and gas industry, and overall these industries were the ...