The institutionalist approach to public utilities regulation
By: edited by Edythe S. Miller and Warren J. Samuels
Contributors: Miller, Edythe Stern; Samuels, Warren J., 1933-
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: East Lansing, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Public utilities -- State supervision
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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