The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications

by Robert Britt Horwitz

Book Overview

Deregulation was a political buzzword of the early 1980's. The Reagan Administration came to power on a platform dedicated to getting government "off the backs of the people." Deregulation promised to lower inflation, raise productivity, and reverse the sagging fortunes of American industry. And proponents declared deregulation morally right because it constituted a rollback of the arbitrary power of the state in favor of individual initiative and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195069994
• ISBN13: 9780195069990
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"