Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion

by Josi A. Gsmez-Ibaqez, Jos A. Gmez-Ibez, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022386
• ISBN13: 9780674022386
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"