Sunderasan S. Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy An Economic Analysis

Springer-Verlag London, 2011, 113 p., ISBN: 978-0-85729-211-7This book is an attempt to blend classical economic theory with the realities of the Renewable Energy industry and to identify incentive structures contributing to the success or otherwise of project implementation involving renewable sources and appropriate technologies. It is an attempt to shoot straight at the underlying issues that encourage or plague widespread dissemination of RE technologies. The chapters carry meticulously researched articles published by reputed international peerreviewed journals, with their respective list of references, foot notes and end notes pointing towards sources of additional data, offering clarifications and illustrations or listing exceptions. In many instances, data from India, a setting which provides an excellent backdrop to study various issues involved, are used to illustrate and to drive the arguments.Infant Industry and Incentive Structures
Renewable Energy Technology: Market Development, Subsidy Policy and the Enlargement of Choice
Economic Rents and the Power of Scarcity
Revealed Preferences and the Power of Substitutes
Mapping Development Policy onto the Life-Cycle
Accounting for the Environmental Externality
Microfinance: Taking RE to the ‘Former Poor’
Epilogue: Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy