Daniel Yergin

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Daniel H. Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author and economic researcher.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he was managing editor of the Yale Daily News, and founder of The New Journal. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations (1974) from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Yergin's first major book, Shattered Peace, was a moderately 'revisionist' account of the origins of the Cold War that attributed it chiefly to "tragic misconceptions" on the part of American policymakers who, in the post-WWII years, embraced the "Riga axioms" of George F. Kennan, Loy W. Henderson, Charles E. Bohlen, and Elbridge Durbow rather than the "Yalta axioms" of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shattered Peace was based on Yergin's Ph.D. dissertation.

Daniel Yergin is best known for , a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 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." According to a biographical note in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs, Yergin is currently at work on "a new book on oil and geopolitics."

Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Energy in 2004.

Yergin is married to Angela Stent, Professor at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington DC. Their son, Alex, and daughter, Rebecca, both attend Yale University.

Books by Daniel Yergin

. 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.
. 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.

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.]
. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. ISBN 0-395-30517-9. Reprint: Viking Penguin Books, 1983, ISBN 0-14-006752-3. [With Martin Hillenbrand.]
. New York: Random House, 1993. ISBN 0-679-42995-6. Reprint: Vintage, 1995, ISBN 0-679-7522-0. [With Thane Gustafson.]
. 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.]

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