Daniel Yergin
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Daniel Howard Yergin is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Cambridge Energy Research Associates is a consulting company in the United States that specializes in advising governments and private companies on energy markets, geopolitics, industry trends, and strategy...

, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Inc.
IHS Inc.
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 in 2004.

Born in Los Angeles
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, California
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 to a Chicago Tribune
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reporter father and a mother who was a sculptor and painter, Yergin attended Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School
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. He received his B.A. from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1968, where he served on the board of the Yale Daily News
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, and was a founder of The New Journal. He earned his Ph.D.
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 in International Relations
International relations
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 (1974) from Cambridge University
University of Cambridge
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 where he was a Marshall Scholar
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The Marshall Scholarship, a postgraduate scholarships available to Americans, was created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom when the Marshall Aid Commemoration Act was passed in 1953. The scholarships serve as a living gift to the United States of America in recognition of the post-World War...

. He also holds an honorary doctoral degree (1994) from the University of Houston
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.

Yergin's first major book, Shattered Peace, was a moderately "revisionist" account of the origins of the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 that attributed it chiefly to "tragic misconceptions" on the part of American policymakers who, in the post–World War II years, embraced the "Riga
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 axioms" of George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...

, Loy W. Henderson
Loy W. Henderson
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, Charles E. Bohlen
Charles E. Bohlen
Charles Eustis “Chip” Bohlen was a United States diplomat from 1929 to 1969 and Soviet expert, serving in Moscow before and during World War II, succeeding George F. Kennan as United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union , then ambassador to the Philippines , and to France...

, and Elbridge Durbow rather than the "Yalta
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 axioms" of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shattered Peace was based on Yergin's Ph.D. dissertation.

Daniel Yergin is best known for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 800-page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990...

, a number-one bestseller
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 that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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 in 1992. The book was adapted into a PBS 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." In September 2011 the Penguin Press 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 climate change and the search for renewable sources of energy.

Daniel Yergin also wrote and hosted a PBS production called Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy is a book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, first published as The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World in 1998...

, based upon his book of the same title. This three-part television production was a documentary about the economic history of the 20th century. Yergin interviewed many high profile people such as Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
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, Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
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, Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich is a U.S. Republican Party politician who served as the House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995 and as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999....

, and Robert Rubin
Robert Rubin
Robert Edward Rubin served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs eventually serving as a member of the Board, and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992...

, as well as economists such as John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
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, Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
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, and Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...

. The series presented economic history as a battle between centralized command economies and free market economies.

Books by Daniel Yergin

  • 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
    The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
    The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 800-page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990...

    . 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
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    , 2011. ISBN 978-1-59420-283-4.

Books co-authored by Daniel Yergin

  • 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 0679759220 }. [With Thane Gustafson
    Thane Gustafson
    Thane Gustafson is a professor of political science at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA. He specializes in comparative politics and the political history of Russia and the former USSR....

    .]
  • The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
    Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
    The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy is a book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, first published as The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World in 1998...

    . 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
    Amory Lovins
    Amory Bloch Lovins is an American environmental scientist and writer, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades...

     and Dennis Eklof.]

Articles and interviews

  • Daniel Yergin at Booknotes
    Booknotes
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    , January 27, 1991
  • Mr Bush and the Riga axioms, S. Varadarajan, 2005
  • Crisis in the Pipeline, Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal
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    , August 10, 2006
  • A Price Tag to Growth, LiveMint, February 23, 2007
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