Regulation and its reform /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
©1982.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Object and Approach of This Book
- Limitations
- I A Theory of Regulation
- 1 Typical Justifications for Regulation
- The Control of Monopoly Power
- Rent Control or Excess Profits
- Compensating for Spillovers (Externalities)
- Inadequate Information
- Excessive Competition: The Empty Box
- Other Justifications
- The Mixture of Rationales
- 2 Cost-or-Service Ratemaking
- The System
- The Problems
- Conclusion
- 3 Historically Based Price Regulation
- The System
- The Problems
- Conclusion4 Allocation under a Public Interest Standard
- The System
- Conclusion
- 5 Standard Setting
- The System
- Problems Inherent in the Process
- Conclusion
- 6 Historically Based Allocation
- The System
- The Need for Exceptions
- The Exception Process
- Conclusion
- 7 Individualized Screening
- The Food Additive Screening System
- Problems with This Form of Regulation
- Conclusion
- 8 Alternatives to Classical Regulation
- Unregulated Markets Policed by Antitrust
- Disclosure
- Taxes
- The Creation of Marketable Property RightsChanges in Liability Rules
- Bargaining
- Nationalization
- 9 General Guidelines for Policy Makers
- II Appropriate Solutions
- 10 Match and Mismatch
- 11 Mismatch: Excessive Competition and Airline Regulation
- The Industry
- Regulation
- Harmful Effects of Regulation
- Mismatch as Cause
- An Alternative to Classical Regulation
- Conclusion
- 12 Mismatch: Excessive Competition and the Trucking Industry
- The Industry and Regulation
- The Effects of Regulation
- Alternatives to Classical RegulationConclusion
- 13 Mismatch: Rent Control and Natural Gas Field Prices
- The Industry
- Regulation
- Adverse Effects
- The Mismatch and the Shortage
- The Mismatch and Natural Gas Allocation
- Alternatives
- Conclusion
- 14 Partial Mismatch: Spillovers and Environmental Pollution
- The Problems of Standard Setting
- Incentive-Based Systems: Taxes and Marketable Rights
- Conclusion
- 15 Problems of a Possible Match: Natural Monopoly and Telecommunications
- The Characteristics of the Longline Problem
- The FCC's Response to the ProblemThe Basic Choices
- Conclusion
- III Practical Reform
- 16 From Candidate to Reform
- The Elements of Implementation
- The Kennedy Hearings
- Conclusion
- 17 Generic Approaches to Regulatory Reform
- Better Personnel
- Procedural Changes
- Structural Change
- Encouraging Substantive Refonn
- Appendix 1 The Regulatory Agencies
- Appendix 2 A Note on Administrative Law
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Index