The half-life of policy rationales : how new technology affects old policy issues / edited by Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein. - New York : New York University Press, 2003. - ix, 276 p. ; 24 cm.

"A Cato Institute book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Half-life of policy rationales: how new technology affects old policy issues / Technology, marine conservation, and fisheries management / Lighthouse as a private-sector collective good / Motorway financing and provision: technology favors a new approach / Buying time at the curb / Fencing the airshed: using remote sensing to police auto emissions / Technology and the case for free banking / Consumer protection regulation and information on the Internet / Medical licensing: existing public policy and technological change / Technology and electricity: overcoming the umbilical mentality / Avoiding the grid: technology and the decentralization of water / Technological change and the case for government intervention in postal services / Entrepreneurial community in light of advancing business practices and technologies / Technology and the protection of endangered species / Fred E. Foldvary, Daniel B. Klein -- Michael De Alessi -- Fred E. Foldvary -- Peter Samuel -- Donald C. Shoup -- Daniel B. Klein -- David Friedman, Kerry Macintosh -- John C. Moorhouse -- Shirley V. Svorny -- Alvin Lowi Jr., Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. -- Alvin Lowi Jr. -- Rick Geddes -- Spencer Heath MacCallum -- Richard L. Stroup, Jane S. Shaw Introduction: PART I. METERING, EXCLUDING, AND CHARGING -- PART II. QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION -- PART III. NATURAL MONOPOLY? -- PART IV. OTHER ARES OF POLICY --

0814747760 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814747779 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Technological innovations--Government policy--United States.
Free enterprise--United States.
Technological innovations--Government policy.
Free enterprise.

HC 110.T4 / H35 2003