When we first contemplated a book on this subject we were faced with a number of options: (a) to write it all ourselves, which would have had the merit of internal consistency and continuity of style; (b) to produce a collection of existing papers. which would have given us expert views in the various sub-fields of the economics of nuclear energy and would have put us in the position of knowing from the start exactly what the authors' contribu- tions would be: (c) to commission contributions from individual specialists, chapter by chapter; or (d) some combination of these options. We settled...
When we first contemplated a book on this subject we were faced with a number of options: (a) to write it all ourselves, which would have had the meri...