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The Half-Life of Policy Rationales argues that the appropriateness of policy depends on the state of technology, and that the justifications for many public policies are dissolving as technology advances. As new detection and metering technologies are being developed for highways, parking, and auto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Foldvary, Fred E., 1946-, Klein, Daniel B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Technological innovations > Government policy > United States.
Free enterprise > United States.
Technological innovations > Government policy.
Free enterprise.
Innovations > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Innovations > Politique gouvernementale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Free enterprise
Technological innovations > Government policy
Technische vernieuwing.
Technologiebeleid.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Half-life of policy rationales: how new technology affects old policy issues / Fred E. Foldvary, Daniel B. Klein
  • PART I. METERING, EXCLUDING, AND CHARGING
  • Technology, marine conservation, and fisheries management / Michael De Alessi
  • Lighthouse as a private-sector collective good / Fred E. Foldvary
  • Motorway financing and provision: technology favors a new approach / Peter Samuel
  • Buying time at the curb / Donald C. Shoup
  • Fencing the airshed: using remote sensing to police auto emissions / Daniel B. Klein
  • PART II. QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
  • Technology and the case for free banking / David Friedman, Kerry Macintosh
  • Consumer protection regulation and information on the Internet / John C. Moorhouse
  • Medical licensing: existing public policy and technological change / Shirley V. Svorny
  • PART III. NATURAL MONOPOLY?
  • Technology and electricity: overcoming the umbilical mentality / Alvin Lowi Jr., Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
  • Avoiding the grid: technology and the decentralization of water / Alvin Lowi Jr.
  • Technological change and the case for government intervention in postal services / Rick Geddes
  • PART IV. OTHER ARES OF POLICY
  • Entrepreneurial community in light of advancing business practices and technologies / Spencer Heath MacCallum
  • Technology and the protection of endangered species / Richard L. Stroup, Jane S. Shaw.

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