Principes de l'économie politique et de l'impôt

Bousquet, G.-H.; Ricardo, David

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“…Yet, in fact, the marginal cost concept underpinning the Tarif Vert owed as much to the theoretical and practical work of Maurice Allais, as it did to Dupuit. Based as Professor of Economics at I'kcole des Mines, Allais' work marked a sharp break with the Dupuit tradition by arguing against Divisia's and Roy's traditional u:se of discriminatory tariffs which, reflecting utility rather than cost, priced t:raffic according to what it could bear (Bousquet, 1947;Boiteux, 1986). In this Allais was influenced by the British economist, James Meade, whose 1936 book, Economic Analysis and Policy, arrived in France shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.…”

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Le Tarif Vert Retrouvé: The Marginal Cost Concept and the Pricing of Electricity in Britain and France, 1945-1970

Chick¹

2002

The Energy Journal

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This article compares the development of marginal cost pricing in the French and UKnationalised electricity industries between 1945 and 1970. Asking why French 'marginaliste' economists like Allais and Boiteux enjoyed more influence than their UK counterparts like Meade, political decisions concerning the organisation of the electricity industries, the differing injluence of industrial and consumer interests, and the early postwar choices of hydro and thermal investment in France, are advanced as explanations. In the UK, the Treasury pushed nationalised industries towards marginal cost pricing, requiring them to earn rates of return on existing investment and to subject the proposed investment to test discount rates dun'ng the 1960s. The paper closes by arguing that these different routes to marginal cost pricing in the French and UK nationalised electricity industries had significant effects on later government and publtc attitudes towards the privatisation and liberalisation of the national electricity industry and market.

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Le Tarif Vert Retrouvé: The Marginal Cost Concept and the Pricing of Electricity in Britain and France, 1945-1970

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2002

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Principes de l'économie politique et de l'impôt

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Le Tarif Vert Retrouvé: The Marginal Cost Concept and the Pricing of Electricity in Britain and France, 1945-1970

Le Tarif Vert Retrouvé: The Marginal Cost Concept and the Pricing of Electricity in Britain and France, 1945-1970

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