Daniel Yergin
| Daniel Yergin | |
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 At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012 |
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Washington, DC |
| Occupation | Author |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize (92) |
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| www.DanielYergin.com | |
Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Inc.. He is best known as author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power; and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.
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Early life and education [edit]
Born in Los Angeles, California to a Chicago Tribune reporter father and a mother who was a sculptor and painter, Yergin attended Beverly Hills High School.[1] He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he served on the board of the Yale Daily News, and was a founder of The New Journal. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations (1974) from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He also holds honorary doctoral degrees from Colorado School of Mines, University of Houston, and the University of Missouri.
Career [edit]
From 1977 through 1980, he was a Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1983, a Lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in 1982 with the purchase of a $7.00 file cabinet from Goodwill.[2] In 2004, CERA was acquired by the information company IHS Inc. In addition to being chairman of IHS CERA, he is also executive vice president of IHS.[3]
Books [edit]
Yergin's first book, Shattered Peace, focused on the origins of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. It received the book award from the National Historical Society. Shattered Peace was partly based upon Yergin’s Ph.D. dissertation.
He co-authored and co-edited with Robert B. Stobaugh, Energy Future: the Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, which was a New York Times bestseller.[4]
Daniel Yergin is best known for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1992 and the Eccles Prize for the best book on economics for a general audience.[5] The book was adapted into a PBS/BBC mini-series seen by more than 20 million viewers. Yergin was awarded the 1997 United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding."
His next book was Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World, written with Thane Gustafson, which provided scenarios for the development of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was followed by The Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy, written with Joseph Stanislaw. Which started out as a 60,000 word essay, and described in narrative form the struggle over the “frontier” between governments and markets and the rise of globalization.[6] It was made into a prize-winning six-hour PBS/BBC television series. Yergin was executive producer and host of the series. Yergin interviewed many high profile people including Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Gordon Brown, Newt Gingrich, and Robert Rubin, as well as prominent economists.
In September 2011, Yergin published his 804-page The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, which continued his history of the global oil industry but also addressed energy security, natural gas, electric power, climate change and the search for renewable sources of energy.[7]
All of Yergin's books were drafted in long-hand.[8]
Peak oil controversy [edit]
While Yergin has been invited by the press – including Fox Business,[9] The New York Times,[10] Financial Times,[11] and the Wall Street Journal,[12] – to speak on energy issues, his predictions and assertions have been attacked by critics from a peak oil perspective.[13][14] For example, Jean Laherrere contends that Yergin's predictions on energy production and prices have omitted key facts, leading Yergin to draw incorrect conclusions.[15] Others have criticized his predictions and that of CERA.[16] An essay that Yergin published on the peak oil controversy in the Wall Street Journal aroused further criticism from the peak oil community.[17] He also addressed peak oil in a chapter in The Quest entitled “Is the World Running Out of Oil?”
Books by Daniel Yergin [edit]
- Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Reprints: Penguin, 1978, 1980, ISBN 0-395-27267-X; Penguin, rev. & updated, 1990, ISBN 0-14-012177-3.
- The Dependence Dilemma (Harvard Studies in International Affairs 43): Gasoline Consumption and America's Security. University Press of America, 1980. ISBN 0-87674-047-6. Reprint: Rowman & Littlefield, 1984, ISBN 0-8191-4056-2.
- 1989 Fuels report hearing on the oil price forecast and scenario planning (CEC contract). Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1989.
- The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1990.
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN 0-671-50248-4. Reprint: Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 0-671-79932-0.
- Gasoline and the American People. Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1991.
- The Euro: Remaking Europe's Future: The New Europe poses enormous challenges — for the welfare state, for companies, and for political leaders. Cambridge Energy Associates, 1998.
- The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. Penguin Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59420-283-4.
Books co-authored by Daniel Yergin [edit]
- Energy Future: The Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. New York: Random House, 1979. ISBN 0-394-50163-2. Reprints: Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-394-29349-5; Knopf, 3rd ed., 1982, ISBN 0-394-71063-0; Random House, new revised 3rd ed., 1990. [With Robert B. Stobaugh.]
- Global Insecurity: A Strategy for Energy and Economic Renewal. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. ISBN 0-395-30517-9. Reprint: Viking Penguin Books, 1983, ISBN 0-14-006752-3. [With Martin Hillenbrand.]
- Russia 2010 : And What It Means for the World. New York: Random House, 1993. ISBN 0-679-42995-6. Reprint: Vintage, 1995, ISBN 0-679-75922-0 }. [With Thane Gustafson.]
- The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. Revised, retitled, and updated ed. New York: Free Press, 2002. ISBN 0-684-83569-X. (Original edition, entitled: The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998; ISBN 0-684-82975-4.) [With Joseph A. Stanislaw.]
- Global Energy: Challenges and Priorities (Foreign Affairs Editors' Choice). Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2001. ISBN 0-87609-305-5. [With Amory Lovins and Dennis Eklof.]
References [edit]
- ^ Redburn, Tom. "'Energy Future' Goes Beyond Ivory Tower", Los Angeles Times, August 19, 1979. Accessed December 15, 2007. "Fifteen years ago, Daniel Yergin left Beverly Hills High School to attend Yale University and, except for summer jobs and brief visits, he hasn't been back here since."
- ^ Ringle, Ken (9 April 1998). "Daniel Yergin, Turning a Prophet; How a Historian Became a Market Guru And Hit the Jackpot". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "IHS Executives". IHS Inc. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Klemesrud, Judy (18 November 1979). "Energy Future". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "1992 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Their Works in Journalism and the Arts". The New York Times. 8 April 1992. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Ringle, Ken (9 April 1998). "Daniel Yergin, Turning a Prophet; How a Historian Became a Market Guru And Hit the Jackpot". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ What Will It Take to Save the Earth? April 26, 2012 by Joel E. Cohen in The New York Review of Books
- ^ Khan, Chris (27 October 2011). "Yergin: Only politics can threaten energy supplies". The Associated Press. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Daniel Yergin on Fox Business". http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/embed.js?id=1174676277001&w=466&h=263.
- ^ Gross, Daniel. "U.S. incentives for renewable energy raise questions". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ Yergin, Daniel. "The Perils, Prizes and Pitfalls of a Post-Gaddafi Era of Oil". Financial Times. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ "There Will Be Oil". http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572552998674340.html.
- ^ "Holding Daniel Yergin and CERA Accountable". http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3487.
- ^ Tverberg, Gail (September 29, 2011). "Is Yergin Correct about Oil Supply? (an Opinion the WSJ did not run)". Our Finite World.
- ^ "Peak Oil : Laherrère responds to Yergin". Le Monde.
- ^ "Holding Daniel Yergin and CERA Accountable". http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3487.
- ^ Yergin, Daniel (17 September 2011). "What's Wrong with Peak Oil?". The Wall street Journal. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
External links [edit]
- Daniel Yergin Official Website
- Articles and Appearances by Daniel Yergin
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Daniel Yergin on Charlie Rose
- Daniel Yergin at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Daniel Yergin in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Daniel Yergin at the Notable Names Database
Articles and interviews [edit]
- Booknotes interview with Yergin on The Prize, January 27, 1991
- Mr Bush and the Riga axioms, S. Varadarajan, 2005
- Crisis in the Pipeline, Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2006
- A Price Tag to Growth, LiveMint, February 23, 2007
- Visions of an Age When Oil Isn’t King The New York Times, September 20, 2011
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