James L. Sweeney Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency Professor, Management Science and Engineering Office: Terman 459 | Phone: 650-723-2847 | Fax: 650-723-1304 Email: jim.sweeney @ stanford.edu

Selected Publications

"Quality, Commodity Hierarchies, and Housing Markets", Econometrica, Volume 42, No. 1, January 1974, pp. 147-167.

"Housing Unit Maintenance and the Mode of Tenure", Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 8, No. 2, June 1974, pp. 111-138.

"A Commodity Hierarchy Model of the Rental Housing Market", Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 1, No. 3, July 1974, pp. 288-323.

"Economics of Depletable Resources: Market Forces and Intertemporal Bias", Review of Economic Studies, Volume 44, No. 1, February 1977, pp. 125-141.
Reprinted in The Economics of Exhaustible Resources, Geoffrey Heal (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., London, 1993.

"Optimal Growth with Depletable Resources", with P. C. Garg, Resources and Energy, Volume 1, No. 1, 1978, pp. 43-56.

Macroeconomic Impacts of Energy Shocks: Bert G. Hickman, Hillard Huntington, James Sweeney (eds.), North Holland, 1987.

Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics: A.V. Kneese and James L. Sweeney (ed.), North Holland,Volumes I and II, 1985; Volume III, 1993. 

" Economic Theory of Depletable Resources:  An Introduction" in Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics: A.V. Kneese and James L. Sweeney (ed.), North Holland,Volumes I and II, 1985; Volume III, 1993. 

Fuels to Drive our Future, Committee on Production Technologies for Liquid Transportation Fuels, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1990. Principal Author, Chapter 3 and Appendix D.

The National Energy Modeling System , Committee on the National Energy Modeling System, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1992. Principal Author, Chapter 3: "NEMS Architecture". 

"Natural Resource Economics," in The Social Science Encyclopedia , Edition 2, Routledge

Energy Research at DOE:  Was It Worth It?   Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D in Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.  July 17, 2001.

Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards.   Committee on Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.  July 30, 2001.

“ Energy Economics ,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.   November, 2001, pp. 4513-20.

"Tradable Fuel Economy Credits: Analysis and Text Extended from Chapter 5 of Impact and Effectiveness of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards " , Working Paper, August 12, 2001.

The California Electricity Crisis . Hoover Institution Press.  Forthcoming, June 2002.

The California Electricity Crisis:  Lessons for the Future .  The Bridge.  June 2002.

The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs. Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future Hydrogen Production and Use. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. July 2004
 
“An Energy Policy for the Twenty-first Century”, Hoover Digest, 2005, No. 1. pp. 33-36.
 
Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase One): A First Look Forward. Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiencey and Fossil Energy R&D Programs (Phase One.) National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2005.
 
“California Electricity Restructuring, the Crisis, and its Aftermath;” Chapter 10 in Electricity Market Reform: An International Perspective, Perry Shioshansi and Wolfgang Pfaffenberger (eds.) Elsevier, April 2006
 
“Hydrogen for Light Duty Vehicles: Opportunities and Barriers in the United States”, Chapter 17 in Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment; Michael Schlesinger (Ed.), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2007)
 
National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency. Independent Task Force Report No. 58, Council on Foreign Relations, 2006.
 
Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase Two.) Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiencey and Fossil Energy R&D Programs (Phase Two). National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2007.