The institutionalist approach to public utilities regulation / edited by Edythe S. Miller and Warren J. Samuels.

Other author Miller, Edythe Stern.
Other author Samuels, Warren J., 1933-2011
Format Book
Publication InfoEast Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionvi, 489 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Pt 1. Economic history and theory, market failure, and public policy. Designing utility regulation for twenty-first century markets / W.H. Melody ; Public utilities in the perspective of the Gemeinwirtschaftslehre / Johannes M. Bauer -- Pt 2. New technology, the network, and the political economy of information. The political economy of information and communication / Robert E. Babe ; Policy challenges in the age of the internet / Maurice Estabrooks ; Emerging internet oligopolies: a political economy analysis / Michele Javary and Robin Mansell -- Pt 3. Costing and pricing and the public interest. Regulation of retail telecommunications rates / David Gabel ; Public interest regulation, common costs, and universal service / Robert Loube ; The role of costing as a rate-making tool in an environment of dynamic change / Mark A. Jamison ; Meeting low-income energy needs through public benefits: selecting energy assistance and weatherization funding levels / Dennis J. Ray and Jack R. Huddleston -- Pt 4. Market, regulatory, and deregulation failure. Social control of rail transport in the United States / John C. Spychalski ; Trucking deregulation disproves positive political theory / Kenneth D. Boyer ; Public control, through ownership or regulation, is necessary in electric power / Eugene P. Coyle ; Taking the road less traveled: Harry Trebing and the mythology of deregulation / Thomas C. Gorak ; Harry M. Trebing and three classic errors of deregulation / William G. Shepherd -- Pt 5. Regulation and the clash of economic philosophies. Implications for the social control of business of competing economic visions / Edythe S. Miller ; What was the "public utility category problem" all about?: An essay in interpretation / Warren J. Samuels.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2002008419
ISBN0870136240 (pbk. : acid-free)

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