1. Introduction to our journey
2. Energy lessons from the past and modeling the future
3. Perfect competition and the coal industry
4. Energy price controls, taxes, subsidies, and social welfare
5. Natural monopoly and electricity markets
6. Restructuring in the electricity sector
7. Monopoly, dominant firm, and OPEC
8. Market structure, transaction cost economics, and US natural gas markets
9. Monopsony: Japan and the Asia-Pacific LNG market
10. Game theory and the European natural gas market
11. Externalities and energy pollution
12. Public goods and global climate change
13. Safey and security
14. Allocating fossil fuel production over time and oil leasing
15. Supply and costs curves
16. Energy balances and energy demand
17. Linear programming, refining, and energy transportation
18. Energy futures markets for managing risk
19. Energy options for managing risk
20. Climbing the energy/development ladder to sustainability
21. Sustainable wealth in fossil fuel-rich developing countries
22. Managing in the multicultural world of energy