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Richard S. Higgins - Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition (Wiley Series in Managerial Economics) - 9780471962953 - V9780471962953
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Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition (Wiley Series in Managerial Economics)

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Description for Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition (Wiley Series in Managerial Economics) Hardcover. In 1984, the Department of Justice settled its antitrust case against AT&T. The agreement, embedded in the Modification of Final Judgment, led to a divestiture of the local telephone exchanges from AT&T to the Regional Bell Operating Companies (known as the Baby Bells ). Series: Wiley Series in Managerial Economics. Num Pages: 225 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 251 x 194 x 21. Weight in Grams: 738.

In 1984, the Department of Justice settled its antitrust caseagainst AT&T. The agreement, embedded in the Modification ofFinal Judgment, led to a divestiture of the local telephoneexchanges from AT&T to the Regional Bell Operating Companies(known as the Baby Bells ). This agreement gave unprecedented powerover a major US industry to one man, Judge Harold Greene of the USDistrict Court of the District of Columbia. The Baby Bells couldnot enter any line of business without approval from Judge Greene.With technological change it became increasingly desirable for theBaby Bells to enter different lines of business, but each attemptwas subject to legal challenge ... Read more

  • A cost-benefit analysis of the 1984 AT&T antitrust settlement
  • Theoretical and empirical studies that analyse the results of thesettlement from its inception in 1984 to 1994
  • An explanation for the recent policy decisions to reduce theamount of regulation in telecommunications
  • Analysis vital to predicting the results of any deregulation intelecommunications in the future

This book will prove invaluable to economists interested intelecommunications, as well as those interested in antitrust and in regulation.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Wiley
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Series in Managerial Economics
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471962953
SKU
V9780471962953
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About Richard S. Higgins
Richard S. Higgins is the author of Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition, published by Wiley. Paul Harold Rubin is an American economist and the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University. He was President of the Southern Economic Association in 2012-2013. He is also a research fellow at The Independent Institute.

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