Regulation and Its Reform /

Regulation and Its Reform / / Stephen G. Breyer.

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This book will become the bible of regulatory reform. No broad, authoritative treatment of the subject has been available for many years except for Alfred Kahn's Economics of Regulation (197O). And Stephen Breyer's book is not merely a utilitarian analysis or a legal discussion of procedur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Breyer, Stephen G.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1982
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (486 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. A Theory of Regulation
  • 1. Typical Justifications for Regulation
  • 2. Cost-of-Service Ratemaking
  • 3. Historically Based Price Regulation
  • 4. Allocation under a Public Interest Standard
  • 5. Standard Setting
  • 6. Historically Based Allocation
  • 7. Individualized Screening
  • 8. Alternatives to Classical Regulation
  • 9. General Guidelines for Policy Makers
  • II. Appropriate Solutions
  • 10. Match and Mismatch
  • 11. Mismatch: Excessive Competition and Airline Regulation
  • 12. Mismatch: Excessive Competition and the Trucking Industry
  • 13. Mismatch: Rent Control and Natural Gas Field Prices
  • 14. Partial Mismatch: Spillovers and Environmental Pollution
  • 15. Problems of a Possible Match: Natural Monopoly and Telecommunications
  • III. Practical Reform
  • 16. From Candidate to Reform
  • 17. Generic Approaches to Regulatory Reform
  • Appendix 1. The Regulatory Agencies
  • Appendix 2. A Note on Administrative Law
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Index

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