The Regulated Industries and the Economy

by Paul W. MacAvoy

Book Overview

In recent years, government regulation of industry has had effects throughout the economy. What began nearly a century ago as a single federal agency to curb monopolistic practices of utilities and railroads has become a maze of commissions applying pricing or investment constraints on industries both with and without monopoly power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393950948
• ISBN13: 9780393950946
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"