11.165 | Fall 2011 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Infrastructure and Energy Technology Challenges

Lecture Slides

Selected lecture slides are provided below.

SES # TOPICS SLIDES
I. The Economics of Public Goods and Infrastructure
1 Infrastructure in Crisis: History and Introduction (PDF)
2 Infrastructure, Public Goods, and Market Failure (PDF)
3 Infrastructure and Regulations (PDF)
II. Infrastructure, Development, and Technology
4 Infrastructure Investment and Economic Growth (PDF)
5 Infrastructure and Development (PDF)
6 Infrastructure and Regional Development (PDF)
7 Infrastructure, Technologies, and Innovations  
III. Infrastructure Financing, Funding, and Delivery
8 Infrastructure Financing  
9 Infrastructure Funding  
10 Infrastructure Delivery  
11 Project Financing  
12 Financing Energy Infrastructure  
IV. The Energy System
13 The Energy Chain and Market, Part I (PDF)
14 The Energy Chain and Market, Part II (PDF)
15 Issues and Challenges (PDF)
V. Energy and Long-term Development
16 Energy and Economic Development (PDF)
17 Social Development and Sustainability Aspects (PDF)
VI. Energy Infrastructure
18 Energy infrastructure: Needs and Urgencies in the United States (PDF)
19 Energy Infrastructure in Emerging and Other Advanced Economies  
VII. Energy Security Issues
20 Disruptions to Energy Supply (PDF)
21 Infrastructure Protection, Natural Disasters, and Terrorist Threats (PDF)
VIII. Energy Security and Food Security Intertwined
22 Food vs. Fuel? (PDF)
23 Emerging Issues and Policy Implications (PDF)
IX. The Political Economy of Energy
24 Regulations, Constraints, and Political Processes of Energy Infrastructure (PDF)
25–26 Student Presentations