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Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
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Description for Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
Paperback. In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 line illustrations, 29 tables. BIC Classification: KC; KN; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas, telephones, and highways--with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles including the collapse of California's wholesale electricity market and the bankruptcy of Britain's largest railroad company have raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate natural monopolies --those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Rather than sticking to ... Read more
In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas, telephones, and highways--with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles including the collapse of California's wholesale electricity market and the bankruptcy of Britain's largest railroad company have raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate natural monopolies --those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Rather than sticking to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674022386
SKU
V9780674022386
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About Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez is Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Graduate School of Design and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Reviews for Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
Gomez-Ibanez uses a rich set of case studies to analyze how and why...different institutional designs are chosen and reformed. The author's range is exceptionally wide: Sri Lanka, the U.S., Britain and Argentina; he tackles telecommunications, railroads, airlines, electricity, buses and water; and spans time periods from the 1950s to today. The result is a remarkable array of examples, information and ... Read more