Buchanan has made a significant contribution to joint supply theory by emphasizing the relevance of technological variability to welfare optimality conditions. This paper shows that it is the joint supply relationship in his analysis—not the externality relationship—that should be...

When we think of energy issues, we generally conjure up ideas of conflicts between producers and consumers. These translate into visions of grand ideological conflicts between the left and the right. Wildavsky and Tennenbaum (1981) speak of battles between "preservationists" and...