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Book Synopsis Privatization of Natural Monopoly Public Enterprises by : Ralph Bradburd
Download or read book Privatization of Natural Monopoly Public Enterprises written by Ralph Bradburd and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Privatizing Monopolies by : Ravi Ramamurti
Download or read book Privatizing Monopolies written by Ravi Ramamurti and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Privatizing Monopolies, a distinguished interdisciplinary team of business school faculty, economists, political scientists, and practitioners from multinational companies examines the lessons of this process in two important sectors: telecommunications and transport (airlines and roadways).
Book Synopsis Privatization, Public Ownership, and the Regulation of Natural Monopoly by : Christopher D. Foster
Download or read book Privatization, Public Ownership, and the Regulation of Natural Monopoly written by Christopher D. Foster and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.D. Foster drawing on his enormous experience in Government, industry and academia, has written a most comprehensive study of privatization policy under the Conservative Government of the last 2 years. In this lucid, non-technical work, Foster draws on the history of state intervention, regulation, and nationalization of industries that were argued to be natural monopolies, for example, the railways. The failure of nationalized industries, Foster argues, is rooted not only in inefficiency, but in the lack of any clear performance indicators of what such public enterprises should be achieving. These observations open out his book into a discussion of the development of privatization under Mrs Thatcher (not apparently part of a big plan, but more a muddling through of policy ideas). Subsequently Foster contrasts the legal and economic construction of regulation in the US to the looser rein of the new British style of regulation. The remaining chapters evaluate the performance and regulation of the newly privatized enterprises and Foster finds that on balance the new regulatory structures are workable and have avoided many of the problems of the past. Foster's scholarly and measured, yet accessible book is a moderate defence of what became a central ideological plank of Thatcherism. He calls for a carefully thought through planning of regulation where other States are thinking of privatizing their public enterprises. He also discusses how far the same objectives can be achieved through public enterprise reform. This book, given the wealth of detail about public policy should appeal greatly to lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as those on courses in public administration and other professionals.
Download or read book Monopoly Mail written by Douglas Adie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First class postage rates have risen from six cents in 1971 to 25 cents in 1988. This rapid increase might be justifiable if service had improved commen-surately, but in fact postal service has steadily deteriorated. The Postal Service concedes that it takes ten percent longer to deliver a first class letter than it did in the 1960s, and one recent postmaster general admits that delivery may have been more reliable in the 1920s. In this volume, Adie reviews the failures of the U.S. Postal Service - an inability to innovate, soaring labor costs, huge deficits, chronic inefficiency, and declining service standards. He blames most of these problems on the postal service's monopoly status. Competition produces efficiency and innovation; monopoly breeds inefficiency, high costs and stagnation. He also examines the experiences of other countries and other industries that may be valuable in prescribing reform for the postal service. The breakup of AT&T provides lessons that may be applied to postal reform. The long-run effects of deregulation on the airline industry are also examined. Since the postal service has serious union problems, Adie looks at the air traffic controllers' strike and other evidence on pay and labor relations in government unions. Finally, Adie examines the experiences of Canada and Great Britain with privatization of government companies. He then offers a comprehensive - and controversial - reform plan for the U.S. Postal Service, with no further monopoly privileges or taxpayer subsidies. He argues that private companies should be free to compete with the Postal Service, and it, in turn, should be free to compete in all phases of the communications business. Without privatization and deregulation, the Postal Service is doomed to continuing inefficiency, rising costs, worsening labor relations, and an increasing loss of customers to more innovative and efficient service providers. Competition would give the Postal Service a chance to enter the 21st ce
Book Synopsis Privatization and the Natural Monopolies by : John Vickers
Download or read book Privatization and the Natural Monopolies written by John Vickers and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Monopoly by : Edward Lee Hudgins
Download or read book The Last Monopoly written by Edward Lee Hudgins and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the pros and cons of privatizing the postal service.
Book Synopsis Privatization, Regulation and Deregulation by : M. E. Beesley
Download or read book Privatization, Regulation and Deregulation written by M. E. Beesley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatization, Regulation and Deregulation collects Professor Michael Beesley's most important work in the are of privatization. He advised the government on forthcoming legislation on telecoms, buses, and water as well as advising new regulators. Now in.
Book Synopsis Regulating Infrastructure by : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
Download or read book Regulating Infrastructure written by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 economics, José Gómez-Ibáñez draws on history, politics, and a wealth of examples to provide a road map for various approaches to regulation. He makes a strong case for favoring market-oriented and contractual approaches--including private contracts between infrastructure providers and customers as well as concession contracts with the government acting as an intermediary--over those that grant government regulators substantial discretion. Contracts can provide stronger protection for infrastructure customers and suppliers--and greater opportunities to tailor services to their mutual advantage. In some cases, however, the requirements of the firms and their customers are too unpredictable for contracts to work, and alternative schemes may be needed.
Book Synopsis The Conflict Between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship by : John Graham Brooks
Download or read book The Conflict Between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship written by John Graham Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Privatization and After by : V. V. Ramanadham
Download or read book Privatization and After written by V. V. Ramanadham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatization and After discusses the need to monitor privatization. The authors argue that monitoring will show whether or not the process is fulfilling its objectives and contributing to improved economic performance. The book also assesses the need for, and techniques of, regulating privatized enterprises in situations of continuing monopoly or significant market control. This is supported by an in-depth analysis of regulation in the UK and its implications for developing countries. Further illustrative material is drawn from a range of developed, developing and former socialist countries.
Book Synopsis The Privatization of Everything by : Donald Cohen
Download or read book The Privatization of Everything written by Donald Cohen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian “An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons.” —Naomi Klein A sweeping exposé of the ways in which private interests strip public goods of their power and diminish democracy, the hardcover edition of The Privatization of Everything elicited a wide spectrum of praise: Kirkus Reviews hailed it as “a strong, economics-based argument for restoring the boundaries between public goods and private gains,” Literary Hub featured the book on a Best Nonfiction list, calling it “a far-reaching, comprehensible, and necessary book,” and Publishers Weekly dubbed it a “persuasive takedown of the idea that the private sector knows best.” From Diane Ravitch (“an important new book about the dangers of privatization”) to Heather McGhee (“a well-researched call to action”), the rave reviews mirror the expansive nature of the book itself, covering the impact of privatization on every aspect of our lives, from water and trash collection to the justice system and the military. Cohen and Mikaelian also demonstrate how citizens can—and are—wresting back what is ours: A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. Colorado towns fought back well-funded campaigns to preserve telecom monopolies and hamstring public broadband. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the state of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code. “Enlightening and sobering” (Rosanne Cash), The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a wide range of issues and offers what Cash calls “a progressive voice with a firm eye on justice [that] can carefully parse out complex issues for those of us who take pride in citizenship.”
Author :Richard Theodore Ely Publisher :New York : Macmillan Company ; London, Macmillan ISBN 13 : Total Pages :320 pages Book Rating :4.A/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Monopolies and Trusts by : Richard Theodore Ely
Download or read book Monopolies and Trusts written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by New York : Macmillan Company ; London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1900 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis De-monopolization And Competition Policy In Post-communist Economies by : Ben Slay
Download or read book De-monopolization And Competition Policy In Post-communist Economies written by Ben Slay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in developed capitalist economies, markets function poorly without regulation by competitive forces. The countries that once were part of the Eastern bloc are introducing market forces into industries created according to the monopolistic logic of central planning, so that competition policy plays an important role in the transition to capitalism. This interdisciplinary study examines how barriers to the development of competitive markets and competition policy are being overcome in Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Mongolia. A group of U.S., Russian, and East European specialists explores the institutions and programs of competition policy as well as its role in the overall post-Communist transition. Providing a complete, comparative picture of the development of competition policy in a broad cross section of formerly socialist countries, the contributors consider the extent of the post-Communist monopoly problem as well as progress in de-monopolization.
Book Synopsis Privatizing and Eliminating the Monopoly of the United States Postal Service by :
Download or read book Privatizing and Eliminating the Monopoly of the United States Postal Service written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reforming Infrastructure by : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Download or read book Reforming Infrastructure written by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.
Book Synopsis Ringing in th 20th Century by : Scott J. Wallsten
Download or read book Ringing in th 20th Century written by Scott J. Wallsten and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many countries, recent reforms in telecommunications represent a restoration of the private provision and competition that prevailed in the early part of the 20th century. At that time, just as today, telephone service in countries with competing private providers was superior to service in countries with a state-owned monopoly.
Download or read book Monopoly Mail written by Douglas K. Adie and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1989 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First class postage rates have risen from six cents in 1971 to 25 cents in 1988. This rapid increase might be justifiable if service had improved commen-surately, but in fact postal service has steadily deteriorated. The Postal Service concedes that it takes ten percent longer to deliver a first class letter than it did in the 1960s, and one recent postmaster general admits that delivery may have been more reliable in the 1920s. In this volume, Adie reviews the failures of the U.S. Postal Service—an inability to innovate, soaring labor costs, huge deficits, chronic inefficiency, and declining service standards. He blames most of these problems on the postal service's monopoly status. Competition produces efficiency and innovation; monopoly breeds inefficiency, high costs and stagnation. He also examines the experiences of other countries and other industries that may be valuable in prescribing reform for the postal service. The breakup of AT&T provides lessons that may be applied to postal reform. The long-run effects of deregulation on the airline industry are also examined. Since the postal service has serious union problems, Adie looks at the air traffic controllers' strike and other evidence on pay and labor relations in government unions. Finally, Adie examines the experiences of Canada and Great Britain with privatization of government companies. He then offers a comprehensive—and controversial—reform plan for the U.S. Postal Service, with no further monopoly privileges or taxpayer subsidies. He argues that private companies should be free to compete with the Postal Service, and it, in turn, should be free to compete in all phases of the communications business. Without privatization and deregulation, the Postal Service is doomed to continuing inefficiency, rising costs, worsening labor relations, and an increasing loss of customers to more innovative and efficient service providers. Competition would give the Postal Service a chance to enter the 21st century as a modern, efficient company. It would also give American consumers a chance to have the kind of mail service that a modern economy demands.