Archive for Robert L. Bradley Jr.
Robert Bradley Jr. is the CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research of Washington, D.C., and Houston, Texas and author most recently of Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy.
Regulatory Failure by the Numbers
Between the current financial mess and the debate over carbon dioxide emissions controls, there is a lot of talk about regulation these days. We are told, for example, that the recession would have been prevented if proper regulations had been in place. While it is true that (by definition) the “right” regulations would have prevented [...]
25Aug2010 | and Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedA Free-Market Energy Vision
Energy is the master resource. Without it other resources could not be produced or consumed. Even energy requires energy: There would not be usable oil, gas, or coal without the energy to manufacture and power the requisite tools and machinery. Nor would there be wind turbines or solar panels, which are monuments to embedded fossil-fuel [...]
29Jun2010 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedFifteen Things to Despise about Government Regulation
Between the current financial mess and the debate over carbon-dioxide emissions controls, there is a lot of talk about regulation these days. Any time government regulators try to do much more than lay out the basic rules of the game, unintended consequences and moral hazards rear their ugly heads.
11May2010 | and Richard W. Fulmer | 17 comments | ContinuedThe Sustainable–and Young–Hydrocarbon Energy Age
As the Bush administration confronts the economy’s growing need for affordable and reliable energy, the critics of the hydrocarbon-based energy economy are back to the drawing board. The “soft” energy path of subsidies and mandates for conservation and nonhydro renewable energy—hatched during the 1970s energy crisis and popularized during the eight years of Clinton/Gore—was not [...]
1Nov2001 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Growing Abundance of Fossil Fuels
Only two decades ago nearly all academics, businessmen, oilmen, and policymakers agreed that the age of energy scarcity was upon us and that the depletion of fossil fuels was imminent. While some observers still cling to that view today, the intellectual tide has turned against doom and gloom on the energy front. Nearly all resource [...]
1Nov1999 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedEverybody Wins! A Life in Free Enterprise by Gordon Cain
Chemical Heritage Press • 1997 • 342 pages • $24.95 Mr. Bradley is president of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston, Texas. On the surface, this autobiography describes how an individual well past retirement age restructured major assets in the domestic chemical/petrochemical industry through leveraged buyouts (LBOs) to create several billion dollars of wealth [...]
1Nov1997 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 4 comments | Continued-
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